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Name

closedir - close a directory

Synopsis


#include <sys/types.h>
#include <dirent.h>
int closedir(DIR *dir);

Description

The closedir() function closes the directory stream associated with dir. The directory stream descriptor dir is not available after this call.

Return Value

The closedir() function returns 0 on success or -1 on failure.

Errors

EBADF
Invalid directory stream descriptor dir.

Conforming to

SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3

See Also

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


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