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closedir

NAME
LIBRARY
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
ERRORS
ATTRIBUTES
STANDARDS
HISTORY
SEE ALSO

NAME

closedir - close a directory

LIBRARY

Standard C library ( libc , -lc )

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <dirent.h>

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 to indicate the error.

ERRORS

EBADF

Invalid directory stream descriptor dirp .

ATTRIBUTES

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes (7).

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STANDARDS

POSIX.1-2008.

HISTORY

POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD.

SEE ALSO

close (2), opendir (3), readdir (3), rewinddir (3), scandir (3), seekdir (3), telldir (3)