IEEE1284_CLOSE(3)

💖 ieee1284_close — bestie, it's time to say bye to your port 💖

okay so this is a page from section 3 of the manual (that's the Functions section, iykyk) and it's all about ieee1284_close. closing ports. letting go. main character exit energy. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

ieee1284_close — close an open port 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <ieee1284.h>

int ieee1284_close(struct parport *port);

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like. you've got a port. it's open. it's living its life. and now? you need it closed, and you need all the resources that were hanging out with it to be freed. that's literally the whole job of ieee1284_close. call it, and boom — closure (emotionally and structurally 💀). call ieee1284_close and everything associated with that port gets released. periodt.

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✨ RETURN VALUE ✨

• E1284_OK — slay!! 🎀 the port is now closed. it did the thing.
• E1284_INVALIDPORT — nope, the port parameter is invalid. like, maybe it isn't even open? perhaps it is not open, for instance. read the room bestie 😭
• E1284_SYS — something went wrong at the operating system level. and not in a cute way. the global variable errno has been set appropriately, so go check on it. 🙈

no cap, if you get E1284_SYS, that's a system-level problem, not a you problem — but errno knows the details.

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• ieee1284_open(3) — the reverse situation. the beginning of the story. 🌸

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

• Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> — author. iconic of him honestly 👑

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✨ COPYRIGHT ✨

Copyright © 2001-2003 Tim Waugh

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okay bestie that's the whole page!! written by Tim Waugh, dated 09/18/2007, and this was IEEE1284_CLOSE(3) from the manual — now go close that port and free those resources, you absolute legend 🫶💜✨