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
History
The closefrom
() function first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0.
Info
June 12, 2009