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Operating Systems HP-UX Getting the index of the last entry in a directory Post 302327702 by jim mcnamara on Monday 22nd of June 2009 11:04:57 AM
Old 06-22-2009
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.
 

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