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