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@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 .\" Chris Torek and the American National Standards Committee X3,
 .\" on Information Processing Systems.
 .\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(BSD_4_CLAUSE_UCB)
 .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
 .\" are met:
@@ -32,29 +33,30 @@
 .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)fclose.3   6.7 (Berkeley) 6/29/91
 .\"
 .\" Converted for Linux, Mon Nov 29 15:19:14 1993, faith@cs.unc.edu
 .\"
-.\" Modified 2000-07-22 by Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
+.\" Modified 2000-07-22 by Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
 .\"
-.TH FCLOSE 3  2009-02-23 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH FCLOSE 3  2015-01-22 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 fclose \- close a stream
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B #include <stdio.h>
 .sp
-.BI "int fclose(FILE *" fp );
+.BI "int fclose(FILE *" stream );
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
 .BR fclose ()
 function flushes the stream pointed to by
-.I fp
+.I stream
 (writing any buffered output data using
 .BR fflush (3))
 and closes the underlying file descriptor.
-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+.SH RETURN VALUE
 Upon successful completion 0 is returned.
 Otherwise,
 .B EOF
@@ -69,12 +71,12 @@ to the stream results in undefined behavior.
 .TP
 .B EBADF
 The file descriptor underlying
-.I fp
+.I stream
 is not valid.
 .\"  This error cannot occur unless you are mixing ANSI C stdio operations and
 .\"  low-level file operations on the same stream. If you do get this error,
 .\"  you must have closed the stream's low-level file descriptor using
-.\"  something like close(fileno(fp)).
+.\"  something like close(fileno(stream)).
 .PP
 The
 .BR fclose ()
@@ -85,21 +87,30 @@ for any of the errors specified for the routines
 .BR write (2)
 or
 .BR fflush (3).
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.SH CONFORMING TO
 C89, C99.
 .SH NOTES
 Note that
 .BR fclose ()
-only flushes the user space buffers provided by the
+flushes only the user-space buffers provided by the
 C library.
 To ensure that the data is physically stored
 on disk the kernel buffers must be flushed too, for example, with
 .BR sync (2)
 or
 .BR fsync (2).
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
 .BR close (2),
 .BR fcloseall (3),
 .BR fflush (3),
 .BR fopen (3),
 .BR setbuf (3)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.