GNU/Linux |
Debian 6.0.6(Squeeze) |
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telldir(3) |
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telldir − return current location in directory stream
#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
The telldir() function returns the current location associated with the directory stream dirp.
On success, the telldir() function returns the current location in the directory stream. On error, −1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.
EBADF |
Invalid directory stream descriptor dirp. |
4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
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.
closedir(3), opendir(3), readdir(3), rewinddir(3), scandir(3), seekdir(3)
This page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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