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Close the specified `descriptor`. Return 0 on success and a non‐zero value otherwise. A return value of `k_BAD_FILE_DESCRIPTOR` indicates that the supplied `descriptor` is invalid.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdls_filesystemutil.h>`

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