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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers seekdir()? what does it do? Post 302490058 by l flipboi l on Sunday 23rd of January 2011 06:53:23 PM
Old 01-23-2011
seekdir()? what does it do?

What does seekdir() do exactly?

Does it go through the directory files?

I tried looking it up, but all I got was man pages.

Thanks.
 
SEEKDIR(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							SEEKDIR(3)

NAME
seekdir - set the position of the next readdir() call in the directory stream. SYNOPSIS
#include <dirent.h> void seekdir(DIR *dirp, long offset); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): seekdir(): _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE DESCRIPTION
The seekdir() function sets the location in the directory stream from which the next readdir(2) call will start. seekdir() should be used with an offset returned by telldir(3). RETURN VALUE
The seekdir() function returns no value. CONFORMING TO
4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001. NOTES
In glibc up to version 2.1.1, the type of the offset argument was off_t. POSIX.1-2001 specifies long, and this is the type used since glibc 2.1.2. SEE ALSO
lseek(2), closedir(3), opendir(3), readdir(3), rewinddir(3), scandir(3), telldir(3) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.25 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/. 2009-03-11 SEEKDIR(3)
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