centos man page for telldir

TELLDIR(3P)						     POSIX Programmer's Manual						       TELLDIR(3P)

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NAME
       telldir - current location of a named directory stream

SYNOPSIS
       #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
       opendir(), readdir(), seekdir(), the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, <dirent.h>

COPYRIGHT
       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technol-
       ogy -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of
       Electrical  and	Electronics  Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. 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 http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

IEEE
/The Open Group						       2003							       TELLDIR(3P)