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).
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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)