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closedir(3)             Library Functions Manual             closedir(3)

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).
       ┌─────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
       │ Interface                           │ Attribute     │ Value   │
       ├─────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
       │ closedir()                          │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
       └─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘

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)

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Linux man-pages 6.9.1          2024-05-02                    closedir(3)

Pages that refer to this page: fanotify_mark(2), dirfd(3), opendir(3), readdir(3), rewinddir(3), scandir(3), seekdir(3), telldir(3)

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