fgetpos(3p) — Linux manual page

FGETPOS(3P)             POSIX Programmer's Manual             FGETPOS(3P)

PROLOG         top

       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.

NAME         top

       fgetpos — get current file position information

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <stdio.h>

       int fgetpos(FILE *restrict stream, fpos_t *restrict pos);

DESCRIPTION         top

       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.

       The fgetpos() function shall store the current values of the parse
       state (if any) and file position indicator for the stream pointed
       to by stream in the object pointed to by pos.  The value stored
       contains unspecified information usable by fsetpos() for
       repositioning the stream to its position at the time of the call
       to fgetpos().

       The fgetpos() function shall not change the setting of errno if
       successful.

RETURN VALUE         top

       Upon successful completion, fgetpos() shall return 0; otherwise,
       it shall return a non-zero value and set errno to indicate the
       error.

ERRORS         top

       The fgetpos() function shall fail if:

       EBADF  The file descriptor underlying stream is not valid.

       EOVERFLOW
              The current value of the file position cannot be
              represented correctly in an object of type fpos_t.

       ESPIPE The file descriptor underlying stream is associated with a
              pipe, FIFO, or socket.

       The following sections are informative.

EXAMPLES         top

       None.

APPLICATION USAGE         top

       None.

RATIONALE         top

       None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS         top

       None.

SEE ALSO         top

       Section 2.5, Standard I/O Streams, fopen(3p), ftell(3p),
       rewind(3p), ungetc(3p)

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, stdio.h(0p)

COPYRIGHT         top

       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 .

IEEE/The Open Group                2017                       FGETPOS(3P)

Pages that refer to this page: stdio.h(0p),  ftell(3p)

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