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+.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
+.\" Chris Torek and the American National Standards Committee X3,
+.\" on Information Processing Systems.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
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+.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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+.\" without specific prior written permission.
+.\"
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\" @(#)fclose.3 6.7 (Berkeley) 6/29/91
+.\"
+.\" Converted for Linux, Mon Nov 29 15:19:14 1993, faith@cs.unc.edu
+.\"
+.\" Modified 2000-07-22 by Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
+.\"
+.TH FCLOSE 3 1993-11-29 "BSD MANPAGE" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.SH NAME
+fclose \- close a stream
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B #include <stdio.h>
+.sp
+.BI "int fclose(FILE *" fp );
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The
+.B fclose
+function will flush the stream pointed to by
+.IR fp
+(writing any buffered output data using
+.BR fflush (3))
+and close the underlying file descriptor.
+.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+Upon successful completion 0 is returned. Otherwise,
+.B EOF
+is returned and the global variable
+.I errno
+is set to indicate the error. In either case any further access
+(including another call to
+.BR fclose ())
+to the stream results in undefined behaviour.
+.SH ERRORS
+.TP
+.B EBADF
+The filedescriptor underlying
+.I fp
+is not valid.
+.\" This error cannot occur unless you are mixing ANSI C stdio operations and
+.\" low-level file operations on the same stream. If you do get this error,
+.\" you must have closed the stream's low-level file descriptor using
+.\" something like close(fileno(fp)).
+.PP
+The
+.B fclose
+function may also fail and set
+.I errno
+for any of the errors specified for the routines
+.BR close (2),
+.BR write (2)
+or
+.BR fflush (3).
+.SH NOTES
+Note that
+.B fclose
+only flushes the user space buffers provided by the
+C library. To ensure that the data is physically stored
+on disk the kernel buffers must be flushed too, e.g. with
+.BR sync (2)
+or
+.BR fsync (2).
+.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+The
+.B fclose
+function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C'').
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR close (2),
+.BR fcloseall (3),
+.BR fflush (3),
+.BR fopen (3),
+.BR setbuf (3)