telldir (3)
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 streamSYNOPSIS
#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(), readdir(), seekdir() The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2008, <dirent.h>COPYRIGHT
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) 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 www.unix.org/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 www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .