NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | ERRORS | CONFORMING TO | NOTES | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

TELLDIR(3)                    Linux Programmer's Manual                    TELLDIR(3)

NAME         top

       telldir - return current location in directory stream

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <dirent.h>

       long telldir(DIR *dirp);

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       telldir(): _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION         top

       The telldir() function returns the current location associated with the
       directory stream dirp.

RETURN VALUE         top

       On success, the telldir() function returns the current location in the
       directory stream.  On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS         top

       EBADF  Invalid directory stream descriptor dirp.

CONFORMING TO         top

       4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.

NOTES         top

       In glibc up to version 2.1.1, the return type of telldir() was off_t.
       POSIX.1-2001 specifies long, and this is the type used since glibc 2.1.2.

SEE ALSO         top

       closedir(3), opendir(3), readdir(3), rewinddir(3), scandir(3), seekdir(3)

COLOPHON         top

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                                      2009-03-11                           TELLDIR(3)