REWIND(3POSIX)

💫 REWIND(3POSIX) — the POSIX Programmer's Manual, bestie edition 💫

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🌸 PROLOG 🌸

This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. Lowkey important heads-up: the Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so if you're on Linux, go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior. Also possible: the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. vibe check accordingly 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

rewind — reset the file position indicator in a stream

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <stdio.h>

void rewind(FILE *stream);

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of POSIX.1‐2017 defers to the ISO C standard.

So, the call:

rewind(stream)

shall be equivalent to:

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

...except that rewind() shall also clear the error indicator. that's the little extra sparkle ✨

Now, since rewind() does not return a value, an application wishing to detect errors should clear errno, then call rewind(), and if errno is non-zero, assume an error has occurred. that's the move, no cap 😌

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👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

The rewind() function shall not return a value. it's giving nothing and that's the point 💀

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🔥 ERRORS 🔥

Refer to fseek() — with the exception of [EINVAL], which does not apply.

The following sections are informative.

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

None. (yes bestie, literally none. we're keeping it real 🙈)

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🦋 APPLICATION USAGE 🦋

None.

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💜 RATIONALE 💜

None.

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⭐ FUTURE DIRECTIONS ⭐

None.

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Section 2.5, Standard I/O Streams, fseek()
• The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, <stdio.h>

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🍓 COPYRIGHT 🍓

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 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 .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

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