centos man page for seekdir

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 loc);

   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.  The loc argument should
       be a value returned by a previous call to 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 loc argument was off_t.  POSIX.1-2001 specifies long, and this is the type used  since  glibc
       2.1.2.  See telldir(3) for information on why you should be careful in making any assumptions about the value in this argument.

SEE ALSO
       lseek(2), closedir(3), opendir(3), readdir(3), rewinddir(3), scandir(3), telldir(3)

COLOPHON
       This  page is part of release 3.53 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/.

								    2013-03-24								SEEKDIR(3)