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25.Dd June 15, 2009
26.Dt REVOKE 1
27.Os
28.Sh NAME
29.Nm revoke
30.Nd "revoke a character device"
31.Sh SYNOPSIS
32.Nm
33.Ar
34.Sh DESCRIPTION
35The
36.Nm
37program revokes the character devices using
38.Xr revoke 2 .
39When used on a TTY, calls like
40.Xr read 2 ,
41.Xr write 2
42and
43.Xr ioctl 2 ,
44will be aborted immediately, effectively causing login sessions to be
45terminated.
46.Sh SEE ALSO
47.Xr revoke 2
48.Sh HISTORY
49The
50.Nm
51program first appeared in
52.Fx 8.0 .
53.Sh AUTHORS
54.An \&Ed Schouten Aq Mt ed@FreeBSD.org
55