DEALLOCVT(1)                General Commands Manual               DEALLOCVT(1)

NAME
       deallocvt - deallocate unused virtual consoles

SYNOPSIS
       deallocvt [option...]  [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.

OPTIONS
       -V, --version
              print program version and exit.

       -h, --help
              show this text and exit.

SEE ALSO
       chvt(1), openvt(1)



kbd                               17 Mar 1997                     DEALLOCVT(1)