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Portability: | POSIX.1 conforming |
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DESCRIPTION | |
RETURN VALUE | |
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SYNOPSIS |
#include <stdio.h> int pclose(FILE *pipe);
DESCRIPTION |
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.
RETURN VALUE |
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.
PORTABILITY |
pclose
is defined in accordance with POSIX 1003.2.
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