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34 .\" @(#)fseek.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
47 .Nd reposition a stream
53 .Fn fseek "FILE *stream" "long int offset" "int whence"
55 .Fn fseeko "FILE *stream" "off_t offset" "int whence"
57 .Fn ftell "FILE *stream"
59 .Fn ftello "FILE *stream"
61 .Fn rewind "FILE *stream"
63 .Fn fgetpos "FILE * restrict stream" "fpos_t * restrict pos"
65 .Fn fsetpos "FILE * restrict stream" "const fpos_t * restrict pos"
69 function sets the file position indicator for the stream pointed
72 The new position, measured in bytes, is obtained by adding
74 bytes to the position specified by
83 the offset is relative to the
84 start of the file, the current position indicator, or end-of-file,
86 A successful call to the
88 function clears the end-of-file indicator for the stream and undoes
91 function on the same stream.
95 function is identical to the
97 function except that the
105 obtains the current value of the file position indicator for the
111 function is identical to the
113 function except that the return value is of type
118 function sets the file position indicator for the stream pointed
121 to the beginning of the file.
124 .Dl (void)fseek(stream, 0L, SEEK_SET)
126 except that the error indicator for the stream is also cleared
130 In this implementations, an
132 object is a complex object that represents both the position and the parse
133 state of the stream making these routines are the only way to portably
134 reposition a text stream.
139 must always be initialized by
147 Upon successful completion,
158 return the current offset.
169 return a nonzero value.
170 On error all functions the global variable
172 is set to indicate the error.
175 function does not return an error code, applications need to clear
177 before calling it in order to detect errors.
184 is not a seekable stream.
198 the current file offset cannot be represented correctly in an object of type
211 may also fail and set
213 for any of the errors specified for the routines
243 functions don't store/set shift states of the stream in this implementation.