TELLDIR(3P)

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🎀 TELLDIR(3P) — bestie, it's the POSIX Programmer's Manual 💖

okay so before we even get into it, there's a PROLOG moment you gotta know about:

This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux. 👀

so like. it might not even exist on ur box. vibe check accordingly. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

telldir — current location of a named directory stream 🌸

like, where even are we in this directory rn. that's the whole job.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <dirent.h>

long telldir(DIR *dirp);

short. sweet. one #include, one function, one long coming back at u. iconic behavior honestly. 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so the telldir() function shall obtain the current location associated with the directory stream specified by dirp. that's it. that's the tea. ☕✨

and here's the cute little consistency guarantee, bestie — if the most recent operation on the directory stream was a seekdir(), then the directory position returned from the telldir() shall be the same as that supplied as a loc argument for seekdir(). so u can seek, then tell, and get ur own number back. it's giving "mirror, mirror." 🪞

🔥 RETURN VALUE 🔥

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

💀 ERRORS 💀

No errors are defined.

(not me having zero errors. we love a low-maintenance function. 🫶)

The following sections are informative.

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

None.

🌈 APPLICATION USAGE 🌈

None.

🧚 RATIONALE 🧚

None.

⭐ FUTURE DIRECTIONS ⭐

None.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

  • fdopendir()
  • readdir()
  • seekdir()

The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, <dirent.h> 📖

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okay that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💋 this lil gem came to u courtesy of IEEE/The Open Group, 2017 — TELLDIR(3P), no cap. go seek, go tell, stay iconic. 🎀✨

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