Manual: deallocvt

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 read‐
       ing or writing, and no text has been selected on its screen.

OPTIONS
       -C, --console=DEV
	      the console device to be used.

       -V, --version
	      print version number.

       -h, --help
	      print this usage message.

AUTHORS
       Andries Brouwer 

SEE ALSO
       chvt(1), openvt(1)

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