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closefrom, close_range – delete open file descriptors

LIBRARY SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN VALUES ERRORS SEE ALSO HISTORY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

#include <unistd.h>

void
closefrom(int lowfd);

int
close_range(u_int lowfd, u_int highfd, int flags);

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.

The close_range() system call deletes all open file descriptors between lowfd and highfd inclusive, clamped to the range of open file descriptors. Any errors encountered while closing file descriptors are ignored. Supported flags:

CLOSE_RANGE_CLOEXEC
	Set the close-on-exec flag on descriptors in the range instead of closing them.

Upon successful completion, close_range() returns a value of 0. Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

The close_range() system call will fail if:

[EINVAL]
	The highfd argument is lower than the lowfd argument.
[EINVAL]
	An invalid flag was set.

The closefrom() function first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0 .