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CLOSEDIR

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
ERRORS
CONFORMING TO
SEE ALSO

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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