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<html> <head> <title>closedir</title> <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="closedir"> </head> <body BGCOLOR="#ffffff" LINK="#0000ff" VLINK="#0000ff" ALINK="#0000ff" TEXT="#000000"> <center> <h1>closedir</h1></center> <PRE> <A HREF="/man3/CLOSEDIR">CLOSEDIR(3)</A> Linux Programmer's Manual <A HREF="/man3/CLOSEDIR">CLOSEDIR(3)</A> NAME closedir - close a directory 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 re- turned, and errno is set appropriately. ERRORS EBADF Invalid directory stream descriptor dirp. ATTRIBUTES For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see at- <A HREF="/man7/tributes">tributes(7)</A>. +-----------+---------------+---------+ |Interface | Attribute | Value | +-----------+---------------+---------+ |closedir() | Thread safety | MT-Safe | +-----------+---------------+---------+ CONFORMING TO POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, SVr4, 4.3BSD. SEE ALSO <A HREF="/man2/close">close(2)</A>, <A HREF="/man3/opendir">opendir(3)</A>, <A HREF="/man3/readdir">readdir(3)</A>, <A HREF="/man3/rewinddir">rewinddir(3)</A>, <A HREF="/man3/scandir">scandir(3)</A>, <A HREF="/man3/seekdir">seekdir(3)</A>, <A HREF="/man3/telldir">telldir(3)</A> COLOPHON This page is part of release 5.05 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. 2015-08-08 <A HREF="/man3/CLOSEDIR">CLOSEDIR(3)</A></PRE> <center> <h6>Man Pages Copyright Respective Owners. Site Copyright (C) 1994 - 2025 <a href="http://www.he.net">Hurricane Electric</a>. All Rights Reserved.</h6></center> </body> </html>

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