REVOKE(1)

💅 REVOKE(1) 💅

okay so bestie, this is REVOKE(1) from the General Commands Manual — short page, big “oh no” energy, and honestly kind of iconic. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

revoke — revoke a character device. That’s literally the whole job description. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

revoke file ...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The revoke program revokes the character devices using revoke(2). 🫶

When used on a TTY, calls like read(2), write(2) and ioctl(2), will be aborted immediately, effectively causing login sessions to be terminated. 😭

⚠️ bestie, this is the part where you go “wait, WHAT?” — on a TTY, those calls get aborted immediately, effectively causing login sessions to be terminated. The page is not being dramatic. That is the sentence. 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• revoke(2) — go read it, iykyk. 🫶

👑 HISTORY 👑

The revoke program first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0. periodt. ⭐

🎀 AUTHORS 🎀

Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org> — yes, keep the email exactly, bestie. 💌

k byeee, stay hydrated and keep your login sessions safe 💖 — this was Debian’s REVOKE(1) page, dated June 15, 2009 ✨