pclose
Closes process file pointer
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intpclose
resourcehandle
Closes a file pointer to a pipe opened by popen.
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handle
The file pointer must be valid, and must have been returned by a
successful call to popen.
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Returns the termination status of the process that was run. In case of
an error then -1 is returned.
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<function>pclose</function> example
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Unix Only:
pclose is internally implemented using the
waitpid(3) system call. To obtain the real exit
status code the pcntl_wexitstatus function
should be used.
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popen