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closefrom

delete open file descriptors

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

#include <unistd.h>

void
closefrom(int lowfd);

The () system call deletes all open file descriptors greater than or equal to lowfd from the per-process object reference table. Any errors encountered while closing file descriptors are ignored.

close(2)

The closefrom() function first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0.