.TH IM_CLOSE 3 "11 April 1990"
.SH NAME
im_close \- close an image descriptor
.SH SYNOPSIS
#include <vips/vips.h>

int im_close(image)
.br
IMAGE *image;
.SH DESCRIPTION
im_close(3) frees all the resources attached to the image descriptor. This may
involve closing files, freeing memory buffers, triggering close callback
lists, unmapping files, freeing regions, and so on. If all this succeeds, then
the function returns zero. If something goes wrong, the function returns
non-zero and sets im_errormsg(3). If im_close(3) fails, the image descriptor is
left in an undefined state.

In the case that the image descriptor corresponds to a file opened by
im_openout(3) that has been written to, the function sets an output
description file as follows:  If the output image filename is terminated with
".v",  the string held by the Hist member of the image descriptor is copied to
a corresponding file ending with ".desc" in the same directory.  In all other
cases, an output .desc file is not created.

If a NULL pointer is passed to im_close(3), it returns successfully
immediately.
.SH RETURN VALUE
The function returns 0 on success and -1 on error.
.SH COPYRIGHT
N. Dessipris, K. Martinez, J. Cupitt
.SH SEE ALSO
im_mmapin(3), im_openin(3), im_openout(3), im_setbuf(3), im_open(3),
im_incheck(3), im_pincheck(3).
.SH AUTHOR
N. Dessipris \- 11/04/1990