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CLOSEFROM(2)		  FreeBSD System Calls Manual		  CLOSEFROM(2)

NAME
     closefrom -- delete open file descriptors

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <unistd.h>

     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
     close(2)

HISTORY
     The closefrom() function first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0.

FreeBSD 7.2			 June 12, 2009			   FreeBSD 7.2

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