NAME

     closefrom — delete open file descriptors

LIBRARY

     Utility functions from BSD systems (libbsd, -lbsd)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <unistd.h>
     (See libbsd(7) for include usage.)

     void
     closefrom(int lowfd);

DESCRIPTION

     The closefrom() 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.

SEE ALSO

     close(2)

STANDARDS

     closefrom() is a BSD and Solaris extension.

HISTORY

     The closefrom() function first appeared in Solaris 9, OpenBSD 3.5, DragonFly 1.2,
     NetBSD 3.0, FreeBSD 8.0 and glibc 2.34.