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From: ewoods@hemel.bull.co.uk (Eoin Woods)
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Subject: Re: how do I hangup the line from a unix-c program?
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Date: 11 Dec 90 09:56:22 GMT
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jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay A. Snyder) writes:

>how do I hangup the line from a unix-c program?

Use the ioctl(2) system call on the terminal to hang up the line by setting
the baud rate to 0 - On Berkley systems use fcntl(2) to perform a similar
function.

See :	ioctl (2)  <  SysV
	termio (7) <

or :	fcntl (2)  < BSD

Xenix, Minix, Coherent ... I'm not too sure!

Eoin.
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