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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). allbox; lbx lb lb T{ closedir()
InterfaceAttributeValue
T}Thread safetyMT-Safe

Standards

POSIX.1-2008.

History

POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD.

See Also

  1. close(2),
  2. opendir(3),
  3. readdir(3),
  4. rewinddir(3),
  5. scandir(3),
  6. seekdir(3),
  7. telldir(3)