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.\" Linux libc source code
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.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
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.\" 386BSD man pages
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.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:25:21 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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.TH SEEKDIR 3 2009-03-11 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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seekdir \- set the position of the next readdir() call in the directory
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stream.
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.B #include <dirent.h>
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.BI "void seekdir(DIR *" dirp ", long " offset );
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.fi
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.sp
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.in -4n
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Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
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.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
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.in
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.sp
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.BR seekdir ():
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_BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.BR seekdir ()
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function sets the location in the directory stream
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from which the next
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.BR readdir (2)
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call will start.
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.BR seekdir ()
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should be used with an
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.I offset
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returned by
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.BR telldir (3).
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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The
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.BR seekdir ()
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function returns no value.
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
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.SH NOTES
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In glibc up to version 2.1.1, the type of the
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.I offset
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argument was
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.IR off_t .
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POSIX.1-2001 specifies
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.IR long ,
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and this is the type used since glibc 2.1.2.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR lseek (2),
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.BR closedir (3),
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.BR opendir (3),
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.BR readdir (3),
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.BR rewinddir (3),
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.BR scandir (3),
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.BR telldir (3)
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