rewinddir(3)

✨ rewinddir — reset directory stream ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the rewinddir page from section 3 of the manual (the Library Functions Manual, if you're keeping track 📚). it's a tiny little page for a tiny little function and honestly? it eats. let's get into it 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

rewinddir — reset directory stream

📚 LIBRARY 📚

Standard C library (that's libc, link it with -lc) 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <dirent.h>

void rewinddir(DIR *dirp);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so rewinddir() does exactly one thing and it does it iconically: it resets the position of the directory stream dirp all the way back to the beginning of the directory 🔄

that's it. that's the whole function. main character energy with zero dialogue, we love her.

💀 RETURN VALUE 💀

rewinddir() returns no value. nothing. void. she gives you nothing back and honestly that's fine, the side effect is the gift 🎁

🧚 ATTRIBUTES 🧚

ngl if you want the full explanation of what these terms even mean, go read attributes(7) — it's the lore drop.

• Interface: rewinddir()
• Attribute: Thread safety
• Value: MT-Safe

so yeah, she's MT-Safe, she can hang with the threads, no drama 💜

👑 STANDARDS 👑

POSIX.1-2008. periodt.

🌈 HISTORY 🌈

POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD — she's been around. an OG. a legend. we stan a stable API 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

closedir(3), opendir(3), readdir(3), scandir(3), seekdir(3), telldir(3)

go read them all, they're her little friend group and they're all slaying in their own ways 🫶

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and that's the whole page, bestie! this lil' number comes straight from Linux man-pages 6.20, dated 2026-02-08, and yes i remembered the date because it's literally on the page 💖 stay caffeinated, read your directory streams responsibly, and remember: rewind before you read again ✨🎀