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CLOSEFROM(2) System Calls Manual CLOSEFROM(2)

closefromdelete many descriptors

#include <unistd.h>

int
closefrom(int fd);

The () call deletes all descriptors numbered fd and higher from the per-process file descriptor table. It is effectively the same as calling close(2) on each descriptor.

Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and the global integer variable errno is set to indicate the error.

closefrom() will fail if:

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fd is greater than all open file descriptors.
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An interrupt was received.

close(2)

May 31, 2007 OpenBSD-5.6