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When a stream is closed with fclose, the connection between the
stream and the file is cancelled. After you have closed a stream, you
cannot perform any additional operations on it.
Function: int fclose (FILE *stream)
This function causes stream to be closed and the connection to
the corresponding file to be broken. Any buffered output is written
and any buffered input is discarded. The fclose function returns
a value of 0 if the file was closed successfully, and EOF
if an error was detected.
It is important to check for errors when you call fclose to close
an output stream, because real, everyday errors can be detected at this
time. For example, when fclose writes the remaining buffered
output, it might get an error because the disk is full. Even if you
know the buffer is empty, errors can still occur when closing a file if
you are using NFS.
The function fclose is declared in `stdio.h'.
If the main function to your program returns, or if you call the
exit function (see section Normal Termination), all open streams are
automatically closed properly. If your program terminates in any other
manner, such as by calling the abort function (see section Aborting a Program) or from a fatal signal (see section Signal Handling), open streams
might not be closed properly. Buffered output may not be flushed and
files may not be complete. For more information on buffering of
streams, see section Stream Buffering.
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