PR_Seek

Moves the current read-write file pointer by an offset expressed as a 32-bit integer.

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Deprecated in favor of PR_Seek64.

Syntax

#include <prio.h> 
PRInt32 PR_Seek(
  PRFileDesc *fd, 
  PRInt32 offset, 
  PRSeekWhence whence);

Parameters

The function has the following parameters:

fd
A pointer to a PRFileDesc object.
offset
A value, in bytes, used with the whence parameter to set the file pointer. A negative value causes seeking in the reverse direction.
whence
A value of type PRSeekWhence that specifies how to interpret the offset parameter in setting the file pointer associated with the fd parameter. The value for the whence parameter can be one of the following:
  • PR_SEEK_SET. Sets the file pointer to the value of the offset parameter.
  • PR_SEEK_CUR. Sets the file pointer to its current location plus the value of the offset parameter.
  • PR_SEEK_END. Sets the file pointer to the size of the file plus the value of the offset parameter.

Returns

The function returns one of the following values:

  • If the function completes successfully, it returns the resulting file pointer location, measured in bytes from the beginning of the file.
  • If the function fails, the file pointer remains unchanged and the function returns -1. The error code can then be retrieved with PR_GetError.

Description

Here's an idiom for obtaining the current location of the file pointer for the file descriptor fd:

PR_Seek(fd, 0, PR_SEEK_CUR)

See Also

If you need to move the file pointer by a large offset that's out of the range of a 32-bit integer, use PR_Seek64. New code should use PR_Seek64 so that it can handle files larger than 2 GB.

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