seekdir

Sets the position of a directory stream.

Format

#include  <dirent.h>

void seekdir  (DIR *dir_pointer, long int
              location);

Arguments

dir_pointer

A pointer to the dir structure of an open directory.

location

The number of an entry relative to the start of the directory.

Description

If the value of location was not returned by a call to the telldir function, or if there was an intervening call to the rewinddir function on this directory stream, the effect is unspecified.

The type DIR, defined in the <dirent.h> header file, represents a directory stream. A directory stream is an ordered sequence of all the directory entries in a particular directory. Directory entries represent files. You can remove files from or add files to a directory asynchronously to the operation of the readdir function.

See readdir, rewinddir, and telldir in this section.