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Annotation of coherent/a/usr/man/MULTI/close, revision 1.1

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        !             3: close()                COHERENT System Call               close()
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        !             8: Close a file
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        !            10: iinntt cclloossee(_f_d) iinntt _f_d;
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        !            12: close closes the file identified by the file descriptor _f_d, which
        !            13: was returned by ccrreeaatt, dduupp,  ooppeenn, or ppiippee.  close also frees the
        !            14: associated file descriptor.
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        !            16: Because each program can have only a limited number of files open
        !            17: at any given time,  programs that process many files should close
        !            18: files whenever  possible.  The function  exit automatically calls
        !            19: fclose for  all open files;  however, the system  call _exit does
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        !            22: ***** Example *****
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        !            24: For an example of this function, see the entry for open.
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        !            26: ***** See Also *****
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        !            28: COHERENT system calls, creat(), open()
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        !            30: ***** Diagnostics *****
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        !            32: close returns -1  if an error occurs, such as  its being handed a
        !            33: bad file descriptor; otherwise, it returns zero.
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