CLOSE

Section: MINTLIB LIBRARY FUNCTIONS (3)
Updated: 3 March 1993
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NAME

close - close a file descriptor

SYNOPSIS

#include <unistd.h>

int close(int fildes);

DESCRIPTION

fildes is a file descriptor obtained from a creat, open, dup, fcntl or pipe system call. close closes the file descriptor indicated by fildes. All outstanding record locks owned by the process on the file indicated by fildes are closed.

RETURN VALUES

0 on success -1 on failure; errno is set to indicate the error.