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Old 06-22-2009
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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You want seekdir() and telldir() in dirent.h

However, be sure to read your manpage: seekdir() under POSIX basically has to know the offset ahead of time, there is no SEEK_END equivalent (as in lseek() ). Your implementation may behave differently.