closedir(3)

closedir3

Close a directory

Usage

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

int closedir(DIR *dirp);

Library

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

Overview

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).

InterfaceAttributeValue
closedir()Thread safetyMT-Safe

Releases

19 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 13 times.

  1. 1.1–2.2
  2. 3.0
  3. 3.1
  4. 4.0
  5. 5.0
  6. 6.0
  7. 7
  8. 8
  9. 9
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
  13. 13
  14. Arch

Standards

POSIX.1-2008.

History

POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD.

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.