VHANGUP

VHANGUP

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN VALUE ERRORS CONFORMING TO SEE ALSO

NAME

vhangup - virtually hangup the current tty

SYNOPSIS

#include

int vhangup(void);

DESCRIPTION

vhangup simulates a hangup on the current terminal. This call arranges for other users to have a ``clean'' tty at login time.

RETURN VALUE

On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS

EPERM

The user is not the super-user.

CONFORMING TO

This call is Linux-specific, and should not be used in programs intended to be portable.

SEE ALSO

init(8)