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LSEEKIndexNAMElseek - reposition read/write file offsetSYNOPSIS#include <sys/types.h>#include <unistd.h> off_t lseek(int fildes, off_t offset, int whence); DESCRIPTIONThe lseek function repositions the offset of the file descriptor fildes to the argument offset according to the directive whence as follows:
The lseek function allows the file offset to be set beyond the end of the existing end-of-file of the file (but this does not change the size of the file). If data is later written at this point, subsequent reads of the data in the gap return bytes of zeros (until data is actually written into the gap). RETURN VALUEUpon successful completion, lseek returns the resulting offset location as measured in bytes from the beginning of the file. Otherwise, a value of (off_t)-1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.ERRORS
CONFORMING TOSVr4, POSIX, BSD 4.3RESTRICTIONSSome devices are incapable of seeking and POSIX does not specify which devices must support it.Linux specific restrictions: using fBlseekfP on a tty device returns fBESPIPEfP. NOTESThis document's use of whence is incorrect English, but maintained for historical reasons.When converting old code, substitute values for fIwhencefP with the following macros:
SVR1-3 returns fBlongfP instead of fBoff_tfP, BSD returns fBintfP. Note that file descriptors created by dup(2) or fork(2) share the current file position pointer, so seeking on such files may be subject to race conditions. SEE ALSOdup(2), fork(2), open(2), fseek(3)
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