SEEKDIR
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2009-03-11
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NAME
seekdir - set the position of the next readdir() call in the directory
stream.
SYNOPSIS
#include <dirent.h>
void seekdir(DIR *dirp, long offset);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
feature_test_macros(7)):
seekdir():
_BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE
DESCRIPTION
The
seekdir()
function sets the location in the directory stream
from which the next
readdir(2)
call will start.
seekdir()
should be used with an
offset
returned by
telldir(3).
RETURN VALUE
The
seekdir()
function returns no value.
CONFORMING TO
4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES
In glibc up to version 2.1.1, the type of the
offset
argument was
off_t.
POSIX.1-2001 specifies
long,
and this is the type used since glibc 2.1.2.
SEE ALSO
lseek(2),
closedir(3),
opendir(3),
readdir(3),
rewinddir(3),
scandir(3),
telldir(3)
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