posix 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
       fdopendir(), readdir(), seekdir()

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1-2008, <dirent.h>

COPYRIGHT
       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technol-
       ogy -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C)  2013  by	the  Institute	of
       Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.  (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) 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 Stan-
       dard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.unix.org/online.html .

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/The Open Group						       2013							       TELLDIR(3P)