telldir() — Current location of directory stream
Standards
Standards / Extensions | C or C++ | Dependencies |
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XPG4 |
both |
Format
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE
#include <dirent.h>
long telldir(DIR *dirp);
General 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(), then the directory position returned from telldir() is the same as that supplied as a loc argument to seekdir().
Returned value
If successful, telldir() returns the current location of the specified directory stream.
If
the dirp argument supplied is NULL or invalid,
telldir() returns -1 and sets errno to one of the following values:
- Error Code
- Description
- EBADF
- The dirp argument was invalid.