NAME

closedir - close a directory

SYNOPSIS

#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

SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3

SEE ALSO

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