closedir - close a directory
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Attributes
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│ closedir() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘
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.
Errors
EBADF Invalid directory stream descriptor dirp.
History
POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
closedir - close a directory
Return Value
The closedir() function returns 0 on success. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the
error.
See Also
close(2), opendir(3), readdir(3), rewinddir(3), scandir(3), seekdir(3), telldir(3) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 closedir(3)
Standards
POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#include<sys/types.h>#include<dirent.h>intclosedir(DIR*dirp);