Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:13086 comp.unix.questions:10442 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!gatech!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!blake!ogccse!littlei!intelisc!omepd!mipos3!cmdfs2!kseshadr From: kseshadr@cmdfs2.intel.com (Kishore Seshadri~) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions Subject: vhangup Keywords: hangup, ioctl, logoff Message-ID: <13@cmdfs2.intel.com> Date: 23 Nov 88 17:54:40 GMT Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler Microcomputer Division, Chandler, AZ Lines: 6 I'm trying to write a auto-logout facility and am using vhangup to reinitialise a users tty. This does some bizarre things, and several people have suggested that I kill the users shell process instead. I was wondering if anyone had any experiences( pleasant or unpleasant) with the vhangup() call. I'd appreciate any suggestions...