| closefrom(3bsd) | 3bsd | closefrom(3bsd) |
closefrom — delete
open file descriptors
library “libbsd”
#include
<unistd.h> (See
libbsd(7) for include usage.)
void
closefrom(int
lowfd);
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.
closefrom() is a
BSD and Solaris extension.
The closefrom() function first appeared in
Solaris 9, OpenBSD 3.5, DragonFly
1.2, NetBSD 3.0, FreeBSD
8.0 and glibc 2.34.
| June 12, 2009 | x86_64 |