FSEEK(3)                  386BSD Programmer's Manual                  FSEEK(3)

NAME
     fgetpos, fseek, fsetpos, ftell, rewind - reposition a stream

SYNOPSIS
     #include <stdio.h>

     int
     fseek(FILE *stream, long offset, int whence)

     long
     ftell(FILE *stream)

     void
     rewind(FILE *stream)

     int
     fgetpos(FILE *stream, fpos_t *pos)

     int
     fsetpos(FILE *stream, fpos_t *pos)

DESCRIPTION
     The fseek() function sets the file position indicator for the stream
     pointed to by stream. The new position, measured in bytes, is obtained by
     adding offset bytes to the position specified by whence. If whence is set
     to SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, or SEEK_END, the offset is relative to the start
     of the file, the current position indicator, or end-of-file,
     respectively.  A successful call to the fseek() function clears the end-
     of-file indicator for the stream and undoes any effects of the ungetc(3)
     function on the same stream.

     The ftell() function obtains the current value of the file position
     indicator for the stream pointed to by stream.

     The rewind() function sets the file position indicator for the stream
     pointed to by stream to the beginning of the file.  It is equivalent to:

           (void)fseek(stream, 0L, SEEK_SET)

     except that the error indicator for the stream is also cleared (see
     clearerr(3)).

     The fgetpos() and fsetpos() functions are alternate interfaces equivalent
     to ftell() and fseek() (with whence set to SEEK_SET ), setting and
     storing the current value of the file offset into or from the object
     referenced by pos. On some (non-UNIX) systems an ``fpos_t'' object may be
     a complex object and these routines may be the only way to portably
     reposition a text stream.

RETURN VALUES
     The rewind() function returns no value.  Upon successful completion,
     fgetpos(), fseek(), fsetpos() return 0, and ftell() returns the current
     offset.  Otherwise, -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set
     to indicate the error.

ERRORS
     [EBADF]   The stream specified is not a seekable stream.

     [EINVAL]  The whence argument to fseek() was not SEEK_SET, SEEK_END, or
               SEEK_CUR.

     The function fgetpos(), fseek(), fsetpos(), and ftell() may also fail and
     set errno for any of the errors specified for the routines fflush(3),
     fstat(2),  lseek(2),  and malloc(3).

SEE ALSO
     lseek(2)

STANDARDS
     The fgetpos(), fsetpos(), fseek(), ftell(), and rewind() functions
     conform to ANSI C3.159-1989 (``ANSI C'').

BSD Experimental                 June 29, 1991                               2