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telldir

Section: Standard C Library Functions (3C)
Updated: 14 Aug 2002
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NAME

telldir - current location of a named directory stream  

SYNOPSIS

#include <dirent.h> 

long int telldir(DIR *dirp);  

DESCRIPTION

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

If the most recent operation on the directory stream was a seekdir(3C), the directory position returned from the telldir() is the same as that supplied as a loc argument for seekdir().  

RETURN VALUES

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

ERRORS

The telldir() function will fail if:

EOVERFLOW The current location of the directory cannot be stored in an object of type long.

 

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface StabilityStandard
MT-LevelSafe

 

SEE ALSO

opendir(3C), readdir(3C), seekdir(3C), attributes(5), standards(5)


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUES
ERRORS
ATTRIBUTES
SEE ALSO

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