#include <stdio.h> int pclose(FILE *pipe);
pclose
closes a pipe connected to a shell command
that was opened by popen
. The argument pipe
is the
FILE pointer returned by popen
. The pclose
function
waits for the associated process to terminate.
An appropriate feature test macro (_SASC_POSIX_SOURCE
or
_POSIX_C_SOURCE
) must be defined to make the declaration of
pclose
in <stdio.h>
visible.
pclose
returns the exit status of the command. pclose
returns
- 1 if the stream is not associated with a command called by popen
,
or if an error occurs closing the pipe.
pclose
is defined in accordance with POSIX 1003.2.
popen
.
fclose
, popen
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