avoid some overlong lines from posix urls, etc.
[gnulib.git] / doc / posix-functions / close.texi
1 @node close
2 @section @code{close}
3 @findex close
4
5 POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/close.html}
6
7 Gnulib module: close
8
9 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
10 @itemize
11 @item
12 On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), @code{socket} and @code{accept}
13 do not return file descriptors that can be closed by @code{close}.
14 Instead, @code{closesocket} must be used.
15 @end itemize
16
17 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
18 @itemize
19 @item
20 On BeOS, @code{socket} and @code{accept} do not return file descriptors
21 that can be closed by @code{close}.  Instead, @code{closesocket} must be
22 used.
23 @end itemize