hpux man page for fsetpos

Query: fsetpos

OS: hpux

Section: 3s

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fgetpos(3S)															       fgetpos(3S)

NAME
fgetpos(), fsetpos() - save and restore a file position indicator for a stream
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Store the current value of the file position indicator for the stream pointed to by stream in the object pointed to by pos. The value stored contains information usable by for repositioning the stream to its position at the time of the call to Set the file position indicator for the stream pointed to by stream according to the value of the object pointed to by pos, which must be a value set by an earlier call to on the same stream. A successful call to clears the end-of-file indicator for the stream and undoes any effects of ungetc(3S) on the same stream. After a call, the next operation on a update stream can be either input or output.
RETURN VALUE
If successful, these functions return zero; otherwise non-zero.
ERRORS
If fails, is set to one of the following values. [EINVAL] The current value of the file position cannot be represented correctly in an object of size in this environment. Additional values may be set by the underlying function (see fseek(3S)).
WARNINGS
Failure can occur if these functions are used on a file that has not been opened via In particular, they must not be used on a terminal or on a file opened via popen(3S). has no effect on streams that are open for append (see fopen(3S)).
SEE ALSO
fgetpos64(3S), fseek(3S), fopen(3S), popen(3S), ungetc(3S), thread_safety(5), glossary(9).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
fgetpos(3S)
Related Man Pages
fgetpos(3) - linux
fsetpos(3) - linux
ftell(3) - linux
rewind(3) - linux
fgetpos(3) - redhat
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