Manpages - closedir.3

closedir - close a directory

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

  int closedir(DIR *dirp);

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.

The *closedir*() function returns 0 on success. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.

EBADF

Invalid directory stream descriptor dirp.

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

POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, SVr4, 4.3BSD.

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

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