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Manual Pages  — ELF_END

NAME

elf_end – release an ELF descriptor

CONTENTS

LIBRARY

ELF Access Library (libelf, -lelf)

SYNOPSIS

#include <libelf.h>

int
elf_end(Elf *elf);

DESCRIPTION

Function elf_end() is used to release the resources associated with an ELF descriptor pointed to by argument elf. This descriptor must have been allocated by a previous call to elf_begin(3) or elf_memory(3). For programming convenience, a NULL value is permitted for argument elf.

A call to elf_end() decrements the activation count for descriptor elf by one. The resources associated with the descriptor are only released with its activation count goes to zero.

Once function elf_end() returns zero, the ELF descriptor elf will no longer be valid and should not be used further.

RETURN VALUES

Function elf_end() returns the current value of the ELF descriptor elf Ap s activation count, or zero if argument elf was NULL.

SEE ALSO

elf(3), elf_begin(3), elf_memory(3), gelf(3)

ELF_END (3) June 29, 2006

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