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CLOSEFROM(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 					      CLOSEFROM(3)

NAME
     closefrom -- delete open file descriptors

LIBRARY
     Utility functions from BSD systems (libbsd, -lbsd)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <bsd/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.

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								   June 12, 2009							       BSD