NAME

       telldir - current location of a named directory stream

SYNOPSIS

       #include <dirent.h>

       long telldir(DIR *dirp);

DESCRIPTION

       The  telldir()  function  shall  obtain the current location associated with the directory
       stream specified by dirp.

       If the most recent operation on the  directory  stream  was  a  seekdir(),  the  directory
       position  returned from the telldir() shall be the same as that supplied as a loc argument
       for seekdir().

RETURN VALUE

       Upon successful completion, telldir() shall return the current location of  the  specified
       directory stream.

ERRORS

       No errors are defined.

       The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES

       None.

APPLICATION USAGE

       None.

RATIONALE

       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

       None.

SEE ALSO

       opendir()  ,  readdir() , seekdir() , the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001,
       <dirent.h>

COPYRIGHT

       Portions of this text are reprinted and  reproduced  in  electronic  form  from  IEEE  Std
       1003.1,  2003  Edition,  Standard  for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System
       Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003  by
       the  Institute  of  Electrical  and  Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the
       event of any discrepancy between this version 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 .