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+.\" Copyright (C) 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
+.\"
+.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
+.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
+.\" preserved on all copies.
+.\"
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+.\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
+.\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
+.\" permission notice identical to this one.
+.\"
+.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this
+.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no
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+.\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working
+.\" professionally.
+.\"
+.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
+.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
+.\"
+.\" References consulted:
+.\" Linux libc source code
+.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
+.\" 386BSD man pages
+.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 21:25:52 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
+.\" Modified 11 June 1995 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
+.TH CLOSEDIR 3 1995-06-11 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.SH NAME
+closedir \- close a directory
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+.B #include <sys/types.h>
+.sp
+.B #include <dirent.h>
+.sp
+.BI "int closedir(DIR *" dir );
+.fi
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The \fBclosedir()\fP function closes the directory stream associated with
+\fIdir\fP. The directory stream descriptor \fIdir\fP is not available
+after this call.
+.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+The \fBclosedir()\fP function returns 0 on success or \-1 on failure.
+.SH ERRORS
+.TP
+.B EBADF
+Invalid directory stream descriptor \fIdir\fP.
+.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR close (2),
+.BR opendir (3),
+.BR readdir (3),
+.BR rewinddir (3),
+.BR scandir (3),
+.BR seekdir (3),
+.BR telldir (3)