FindClose procedure
Declaration
procedure FindClose(var f: SearchRec)Description
FindClose frees any resources associated with the search record
F.
This call is needed to free any internal resources allocated by the FindFirst or FindNext calls.
The Unix implementation of the Dos unit therefore keeps a table of open
directories, and when the table is full, closes one of the directories, and
reopens another. This system is adequate but slow if you use a lot of
searchrecs.
So, to speed up the findfirst/findnext system, the FindClose call was
implemented. When you don't need a searchrec any more, you can tell
this to the Dos unit by issuing a FindClose call. The directory
which is kept open for this searchrec is then closed, and the table slot
freed.
Glob when looking for files
on Linux.
Errors
Errors are reported in DosError.
See also
An experiment, built from development snapshots. Not the official Free Pascal or Lazarus documentation.