NAME
closedir - close a directory SYNOPSIS
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int closedir(DIR *dirp); DESCRIPTION The closedir() function closes the directory stream associated with dirp. A successful call to closedir() also closes the underlying file descriptor associated with dirp. The directory stream descriptor dirp is not available after this call. RETURN VALUE The closedir() function returns 0 on success. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately. ERRORS EBADF Invalid directory stream descriptor dirp. ATTRIBUTES For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). ┌───────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐ │Interface │ Attribute │ Value │ ├───────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│closedir() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │ └───────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘ CONFORMING TO
SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD. SEE ALSO close(2), opendir(3), readdir(3), rewinddir(3), scandir(3), seekdir(3), telldir(3) COLOPHON
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2008-09-23 CLOSEDIR(3)