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TELLDIR 3C "Aug 14, 2002"
NAME
telldir - current location of a named directory stream
SYNOPSIS

#include <dirent.h>

long int telldir(DIR *dirp);
DESCRIPTION

The telldir() function obtains the current location associated with the directory stream specified by dirp.

If the most recent operation on the directory stream was a seekdir(3C), the directory position returned from the telldir() is the same as that supplied as a loc argument for seekdir().

RETURN VALUES

Upon successful completion, telldir() returns the current location of the specified directory stream.

ERRORS

The telldir() function will fail if: EOVERFLOW

The current location of the directory cannot be stored in an object of type long.

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability Standard
MT-Level Safe
SEE ALSO

opendir(3C), readdir(3C), seekdir(3C), attributes(5), standards(5)