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diff --git a/man3/closedir.3 b/man3/closedir.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e10ae9e --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/closedir.3 @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright (C) 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" Linux libc source code +.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) +.\" 386BSD man pages +.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 21:25:52 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" Modified 11 June 1995 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) +.TH closedir 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +closedir \- close a directory +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <sys/types.h> +.B #include <dirent.h> +.PP +.BI "int closedir(DIR *" dirp ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR closedir () +function closes the directory stream associated with +.IR dirp . +A successful call to +.BR closedir () +also closes the underlying file descriptor associated with +.IR dirp . +The directory stream descriptor +.I dirp +is not available +after this call. +.SH RETURN VALUE +The +.BR closedir () +function returns 0 on success. +On error, \-1 is returned, and +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B EBADF +Invalid directory stream descriptor +.IR dirp . +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR closedir () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR close (2), +.BR opendir (3), +.BR readdir (3), +.BR rewinddir (3), +.BR scandir (3), +.BR seekdir (3), +.BR telldir (3) |