closedir – linux man page

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closedir – close a directory

USAGE
       #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.   On  error,  -1 is
       returned, and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS
       EBADF  Invalid directory stream descriptor dir.

CONFORMING TO
       SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD

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

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