linux 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 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 3.27 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)