Closes a file.

#include <io.h>

int close (int handle);

Parameters

handle

Descriptor that refers to an open file.

Return Values

0 (zero).

Success.

-1 the function sets errno to EBADF, indicating an invalid file descriptor argument.

Failure.

Descriptoin

A call to close(s) on a socket implicitly invokes shutdown(s, 2) which is the same as shutdown(s, SHUT_RDWR) before all the resources associated with the socket are freed.

Requirements

See Also

chsize, creat, dup, dup2, unlink