telldir(3p) — Linux manual page

TELLDIR(3P)             POSIX Programmer's Manual            TELLDIR(3P)

PROLOG 

       This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The
       Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the
       corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior),
       or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.

NAME 

       telldir — current location of a named directory stream

SYNOPSIS 

       #include <dirent.h>

       long telldir(DIR *dirp);

DESCRIPTION 

       The telldir() function shall obtain the current location
       associated with the directory stream specified by dirp.

       If the most recent operation on the directory stream was a
       seekdir(), the directory position returned from the telldir()
       shall be the same as that supplied as a loc argument for
       seekdir().

RETURN VALUE 

       Upon successful completion, telldir() shall return the current
       location of the specified directory stream.

ERRORS 

       No errors are defined.

       The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES 

       None.

APPLICATION USAGE 

       None.

RATIONALE 

       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS 

       None.

SEE ALSO 

       fdopendir(3p), readdir(3p), seekdir(3p)

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, dirent.h(0p)

COPYRIGHT 

       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic
       form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information
       Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The
       Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright
       (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
       Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.  In the event of any
       discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The
       Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group
       Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be
       obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

       Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page
       are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of
       the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see
       https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

IEEE/The Open Group               2017                       TELLDIR(3P)

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