closedir - close a directory
Standard C library (libc
, -lc
)
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <dirent.h>
int closedir(DIR *dirp);
The closedir() function returns 0 on success. On
error, -1 is returned, and errno
is set to indicate the
error.
Invalid directory stream descriptor dirp
.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
Interface | Attribute | Value |
closedir() |
Thread safety | MT-Safe |
POSIX.1-2008.
POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD.