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| author | Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-12-18 09:22:32 +0000 |
| commit | 2faeeff4c9bb77cca44a977d96c1a9fc7af8d8a3 (patch) | |
| tree | cb18f664ed0ee63bee30f6af9b148510b6e9663b /lib/libc/sys/close.2 | |
| parent | a1096fe6dfb9dc2ec492a1421075a38d6d75bc02 (diff) | |
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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/close.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/close.2 | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/close.2 b/lib/libc/sys/close.2 index 9e9471b34194..16abee5e9d55 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/close.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/close.2 @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn close -call deletes a descriptor from the per-process object +system call deletes a descriptor from the per-process object reference table. If this is the last reference to the underlying object, the object will be deactivated. @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ When a process exits, all associated file descriptors are freed, but since there is a limit on active descriptors per processes, the .Fn close -function call +system call is useful when a large quantity of file descriptors are being handled. .Pp When a process forks (see @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ which is to not close the descriptor. .Sh ERRORS The .Fn close -function will fail if: +system call will fail if: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EBADF .Fa D @@ -126,10 +126,10 @@ An interrupt was received. .Sh STANDARDS The .Fn close -function call is expected to conform to +system call is expected to conform to .St -p1003.1-90 . .Sh HISTORY -A +The .Fn close -function call appeared in +function appeared in .At v7 . |