NAME
fclose —
close a stream
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdio.h>
int
fclose(
FILE
*stream);
DESCRIPTION
The
fclose() function dissociates the named
stream from its underlying file or set of functions. If
the stream was being used for output, any buffered data is written first,
using
fflush(3).
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion 0 is returned. Otherwise,
EOF
is returned and the global variable
errno is set to
indicate the error. In either case no further access to the stream is
possible.
ERRORS
-
-
- [
EBADF
]
- The argument stream is not an open
stream.
The
fclose() function may also fail and set
errno for any of the errors specified for the routines
close(2) or
fflush(3).
SEE ALSO
close(2),
fflush(3),
fopen(3),
setbuf(3)
STANDARDS
The
fclose() function conforms to
ANSI
X3.159-1989 (“ANSI C89”).