NAME

       closedir - close a directory

LIBRARY

       Standard C library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

       #include <sys/types.h>
       #include <dirent.h>

       int closedir(DIR *dirp);

DESCRIPTION

       The  closedir()  function  closes the directory stream associated with dirp.  A successful
       call to closedir() also closes the underlying file descriptor associated with  dirp.   The
       directory stream descriptor dirp is not available after this call.

RETURN VALUE

       The  closedir() function returns 0 on success.  On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set
       to indicate the error.

ERRORS

       EBADF  Invalid directory stream descriptor dirp.

ATTRIBUTES

       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

       ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
       │Interface                                                      │ Attribute     │ Value   │
       ├───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
       │closedir()                                                     │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
       └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘

STANDARDS

       POSIX.1-2008.

HISTORY

       POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD.

SEE ALSO

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