<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >pclose</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Filesystem functions" HREF="ref.filesystem.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="mkdir" HREF="function.mkdir.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="popen" HREF="function.popen.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.mkdir.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.popen.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.pclose" >pclose</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN9177" ></A >pclose -- Close process file pointer</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN9180" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><DIV CLASS="funcsynopsis" ><P ></P ><CODE CLASS="FUNCDEF" >int pclose</CODE >(int fp);<P ></P ></DIV ><P > Closes a file pointer to a pipe opened by <A HREF="function.popen.html" ><B CLASS="function" >popen()</B ></A >. </P ><P > The file pointer must be valid, and must have been returned by a successful call to <A HREF="function.popen.html" ><B CLASS="function" >popen()</B ></A >. </P ><P > Returns the termination status of the process that was run. </P ><P > See also <A HREF="function.popen.html" ><B CLASS="function" >popen()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.mkdir.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.popen.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >mkdir</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.filesystem.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >popen</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >