Close (system call)
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Close (system call)
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A close system call is a system call used to close a file descriptor by the kernel. For most file systems, a program terminates access to a file in a filesystem using the close system call. This flushes file buffers, updates file metadata, which may include and end-of-file indicator in the data; de-allocates resources associated with the file and updates the system wide table of files in use. Some programming languages maintain a data structure of files opened by their runtime library and may cl
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2020-07-10T20:50:29Z
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