pack_fclose(3)

📦 version 4.4.3.1, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 pack_fclose(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Allegro manual ✨ this one's a lil three-line wonder and it's honestly iconic for it. we're talking pack_fclose — the girl whose whole job is closing a stream you already opened. lowkey the most responsible function in the whole packfile friend group 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

pack_fclose — closes a stream that was previously opened. it's from the Allegro game programming library, iykyk 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro.h>

int pack_fclose(PACKFILE *f);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea 🍓 — pack_fclose closes the stream f that you previously opened with pack_fopen() or pack_fopen_vtable(). that's it. that's the whole job. and she does it flawlessly, no cap 👑

but listen, bestie, this is the part where you do not play games: once you've closed that stream, doing operations on it is gonna yield errors in your application (like, it could literally crash it 😭) or even block your OS. not a vibe. not a slay. a genuine 🚨 situation. so close it, and then let it go, okay? no lingering, no texting your ex-stream at 2am 🙈

👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

  • zero on success — periodt, that's the good ending ✨
  • on error, it returns an error code which is also stored in errno 💀

and here's the cute lil caveat: this function can only fail when writing to files. if the file was opened in read mode, it will always succeed. she simply cannot miss when she's reading, and that's main character energy fr fr 🌈

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

🌟 reminder: every one of these is a real manual page, go read them, they're all serving in their own way 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💜 this was Allegro, version 4.4.3 — the pack_fclose(3) page, dated and everything, delivered to you with love from the Allegro manual itself 🧚 stay hydrated, close your streams, mwah 💅✨

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