sesskill

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NAME

sesskill - kill current pty session

SYNOPSIS

sesskill [ ] [ ]

DESCRIPTION

sesskill kills the current session. pty will exit immediately, throwing away any final output, and any process running under the pseudo-tty will receive a HUP signal.

Normally sesskill kills the session specified by environment variable PTY. Given it will instead kill session ext.

Note that, unlike the previous version of sesskill, this version can be applied to a connected session, a session where the slave process is still running, and even a non-session running under pty. It is very destructive. It will, in fact, not take effect unless you specify It will not take effect for the current session unless you specify

DIAGNOSTICS

Self-explanatory.