NAME
closefrom
—
delete open file descriptors
LIBRARY
library “libc”
SYNOPSIS
#include
<unistd.h>
void
closefrom
(int
lowfd);
DESCRIPTION
Theclosefrom
()
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.