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32 .\" @(#)fseek.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
33 .\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/stdio/fseek.3,v 1.27 2007/06/18 02:13:04 ache Exp $
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47 .Nd reposition a stream
53 .Fn fseek "FILE *stream" "long offset" "int whence"
55 .Fn ftell "FILE *stream"
57 .Fn rewind "FILE *stream"
59 .Fn fgetpos "FILE * restrict stream" "fpos_t * restrict pos"
61 .Fn fsetpos "FILE *stream" "const fpos_t *pos"
64 .Fn fseeko "FILE *stream" "off_t offset" "int whence"
66 .Fn ftello "FILE *stream"
70 function sets the file position indicator for the stream pointed
73 The new position, measured in bytes, is obtained by adding
75 bytes to the position specified by
84 the offset is relative to the
85 start of the file, the current position indicator, or end-of-file,
87 A successful call to the
89 function clears the end-of-file indicator for the stream and undoes
94 functions on the same stream.
99 obtains the current value of the file position indicator for the
105 function sets the file position indicator for the stream pointed
108 to the beginning of the file.
111 .Dl (void)fseek(stream, 0L, SEEK_SET)
113 except that the error indicator for the stream is also cleared
119 does not return a value,
120 an application wishing to detect errors should clear
126 is non-zero, assume an error has occurred.
130 function is identical to
139 function is identical to
149 are alternate interfaces for retrieving and setting the current position in
154 except that the current position is stored in an opaque object of
159 These functions provide a portable way to seek to offsets larger than
160 those that can be represented by a
162 They may also store additional state information in the
164 object to facilitate seeking within files containing multibyte
165 characters with state-dependent encodings.
168 has traditionally been an integral type,
169 applications cannot assume that it is;
170 in particular, they must not perform arithmetic on objects
173 If the stream is a wide character stream (see
175 the position specified by the combination of
179 must contain the first byte of a multibyte sequence.
186 .Rv -std fgetpos fseek fseeko fsetpos
188 Upon successful completion,
192 return the current offset.
193 Otherwise, \-1 is returned and the global variable
195 is set to indicate the error.
202 is not a seekable stream.
206 argument is invalid or
207 the resulting file-position
208 indicator would be set to a negative value.
210 The resulting file offset would be a value which
211 cannot be represented correctly in an object of type
224 The file descriptor underlying stream is associated with a pipe or FIFO
225 or file-position indicator value is unspecified
239 may also fail and set
241 for any of the errors specified for the routines