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fun close(fd: <Error class: unknown class>): <Error class: unknown class><Boolean>

This wraps the close() call. In case of error, %errno will be preserved, but the error will also be stored as a #GError in @error. In case of success, %errno is undefined.

Besides using #GError, there is another major reason to prefer this function over the call provided by the system; on Unix, it will attempt to correctly handle %EINTR, which has platform-specific semantics.

It is a bug to call this function with an invalid file descriptor.

On POSIX platforms since GLib 2.76, this function is async-signal safe if (and only if) @error is null and @fd is a valid open file descriptor. This makes it safe to call from a signal handler or a #GSpawnChildSetupFunc under those conditions. See man:signal(7) and man:signal-safety(7) for more details.

Return

true on success, false if there was an error.

Since

2.36

Parameters

fd

A file descriptor