FSEEK(3)

NAME
fseek, fseeko, _fseek_r, _fseeko_r - set file position

SYNOPSIS

#include <stdio.h>

int fseek(FILE *fp, long offset, int whence);

int fseeko(FILE *fp, off_t offset, int whence);

int _fseek_r(struct _reent *ptr, FILE *fp, long offset, int whence);

int _fseeko_r(struct _reent *ptr, FILE *fp, off_t offset, int whence);

DESCRIPTION

Objects of type FILE can have a ``position'' that records how much of the file your program has already read. Many of the stdio functions depend on this position, and many change it as a side effect.

You can use fseek/fseeko to set the position for the file identified by fp. The value of offset determines the new position, in one of three ways selected by the value of whence (defined as macros in `stdio.h'):

SEEK_SET---offset is the absolute file position (an offset from the beginning of the file) desired. offset must be positive.

SEEK_CUR---offset is relative to the current file position. offset can meaningfully be either positive or negative.

SEEK_END---offset is relative to the current end of file. offset can meaningfully be either positive (to increase the size of the file) or negative.

See ftell/ftello to determine the current file position.

RETURNS

fseek/fseeko return 0 when successful. On failure, the result is EOF. The reason for failure is indicated in errno: either ESPIPE (the stream identified by fp doesn't support repositioning) or EINVAL (invalid file position).

PORTABILITY

ANSI C requires fseek.

fseeko is defined by the Single Unix specification.

Supporting OS subroutines required: close, fstat, isatty, lseek, read, sbrk, write.

AUTHORS

Steve Chamberlain
    Author.

Roland Pesch
    Author.

Red Hat Support

Jeff Johnston
    Author.

COPYRIGHT

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libc includes software developed by Martin Jackson, Graham Haley and Steve Chamberlain of Tadpole Technology and released to Cygnus.

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