closedir

NAME

closedir - close a directory

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/types.h>
 #include <dirent.h>
 I int closedir(DIR * dir );

DESCRIPTION

The R closedir () function closes the directory stream associated with dir. The directory stream descriptor dir is not available after this call.

RETURN VALUE

The R 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)