'\" te .\" Copyright (c) 1999, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved Portions Copyright (c) 1992, X/Open Company Limited All Rights Reserved .\" Sun Microsystems, Inc. gratefully acknowledges The Open Group for permission to reproduce portions of its copyrighted documentation. Original documentation from The Open Group can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/. .\" The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and The Open Group, have given us permission to reprint portions of their documentation. In the following statement, the phrase "this text" refers to portions of the system documentation. Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form in the Sun OS Reference Manual, from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2004 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between these versions and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html. This notice shall appear on any product containing this material. .TH telldir 3C "14 Aug 2002" "SunOS 5.11" "Standard C Library Functions" .SH NAME telldir \- current location of a named directory stream .SH SYNOPSIS .LP .nf #include \fBlong int\fR \fBtelldir\fR(\fBDIR *\fR\fIdirp\fR); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION .sp .LP The \fBtelldir()\fR function obtains the current location associated with the directory stream specified by \fIdirp\fR. .sp .LP If the most recent operation on the directory stream was a \fBseekdir\fR(3C), the directory position returned from the \fBtelldir()\fR is the same as that supplied as a \fIloc\fR argument for \fBseekdir()\fR. .SH RETURN VALUES .sp .LP Upon successful completion, \fBtelldir()\fR returns the current location of the specified directory stream. .SH ERRORS .sp .LP The \fBtelldir()\fR function will fail if: .sp .ne 2 .mk .na \fB\fBEOVERFLOW\fR\fR .ad .RS 13n .rt The current location of the directory cannot be stored in an object of type \fBlong\fR. .RE .SH ATTRIBUTES .sp .LP See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: .sp .sp .TS tab() box; cw(2.75i) |cw(2.75i) lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i) . ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE _ Interface StabilityCommitted _ MT-LevelSafe _ StandardSee \fBstandards\fR(5). .TE .SH SEE ALSO .sp .LP \fBopendir\fR(3C), \fBreaddir\fR(3C), \fBseekdir\fR(3C), \fBattributes\fR(5), \fBstandards\fR(5)