Dr Andrew Scott
G7VAV
Senior Lecturer
School of Computing
and Communications
D35 InfoLab21
Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4WA
United Kingdom
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Lancaster University
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United Kingdom
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DEALLOCVT
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: 17 Mar 1997
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NAME
deallocvt - deallocate unused virtual consolesSYNOPSIS
deallocvt [N ...]DESCRIPTION
The command deallocvt deallocates kernel memory and data structures for all unused virtual consoles. If one or more arguments N ... are given, only the corresponding consoles /dev/ttyN are deallocated.
A virtual console is unused if it is not the foreground console, and no process has it open for reading or writing, and no text has been selected on its screen.
SEE ALSO
chvt(1), openvt(1)
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