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The new position, measured in bytes, is obtained by adding .Fa offset bytes to the position specified by .Fa whence . If .Fa whence is set to .Dv SEEK_SET , .Dv SEEK_CUR , or .Dv SEEK_END , the offset is relative to the start of the file, the current position indicator, or end-of-file, respectively. A successful call to the .Fn fseek function clears the end-of-file indicator for the stream and undoes any effects of the .Xr ungetc 3 and .Xr ungetwc 3 functions on the same stream. .Pp The .Fn ftell function obtains the current value of the file position indicator for the stream pointed to by .Fa stream . .Pp The .Fn rewind function sets the file position indicator for the stream pointed to by .Fa stream to the beginning of the file. It is equivalent to: .Pp .Dl (void)fseek(stream, 0L, SEEK_SET) .Pp except that the error indicator for the stream is also cleared (see .Xr clearerr 3 ) . .Pp Since .Fn rewind does not return a value, an application wishing to detect errors should clear .Va errno , then call .Fn rewind , and if .Va errno is non-zero, assume an error has occurred. .Pp The .Fn fseeko function is identical to .Fn fseek , except it takes an .Fa off_t argument instead of a .Fa long . Likewise, the .Fn ftello function is identical to .Fn ftell , except it returns an .Fa off_t . .Pp The .Fn fgetpos and .Fn fsetpos functions are alternate interfaces for retrieving and setting the current position in the file, similar to .Fn ftell and .Fn fseek , except that the current position is stored in an opaque object of type .Vt fpos_t pointed to by .Fa pos . These functions provide a portable way to seek to offsets larger than those that can be represented by a .Vt long int . They may also store additional state information in the .Vt fpos_t object to facilitate seeking within files containing multibyte characters with state-dependent encodings. Although .Vt fpos_t has traditionally been an integral type, applications cannot assume that it is; in particular, they must not perform arithmetic on objects of this type. .Pp If the stream is a wide character stream (see .Xr fwide 3 ) , the position specified by the combination of .Fa offset and .Fa whence must contain the first byte of a multibyte sequence. .Sh RETURN VALUES The .Fn rewind function returns no value. .Pp .Rv -std fgetpos fseek fseeko fsetpos .Pp Upon successful completion, .Fn ftell and .Fn ftello return the current offset. Otherwise, \-1 is returned and the global variable .Va errno is set to indicate the error. .Sh ERRORS .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EBADF The .Fa stream argument is not a seekable stream. .It Bq Er EINVAL The .Fa whence argument is invalid or the resulting file-position indicator would be set to a negative value. .It Bq Er EOVERFLOW The resulting file offset would be a value which cannot be represented correctly in an object of type .Fa off_t for .Fn fseeko and .Fn ftello or .Fa long for .Fn fseek and .Fn ftell . .It Bq Er ESPIPE The file descriptor underlying stream is associated with a pipe or FIFO or file-position indicator value is unspecified (see .Xr ungetc 3 ) . .El .Pp The functions .Fn fgetpos , .Fn fseek , .Fn fseeko , .Fn fsetpos , .Fn ftell , .Fn ftello , and .Fn rewind may also fail and set .Va errno for any of the errors specified for the routines .Xr fflush 3 , .Xr fstat 2 , .Xr lseek 2 , and .Xr malloc 3 . .Sh LEGACY SYNOPSIS .Fd #include <stdio.h> .Fd #include <sys/types.h> .Pp .Ft int .br .Fo fseeko .Fa "FILE *stream" .Fa "off_t offset" .Fa "int whence" .Fc ; .Pp The include file .In sys/types.h supplies the definition for .Vt off_t . .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr lseek 2 , .Xr clearerr 3 , .Xr fwide 3 , .Xr ungetc 3 , .Xr ungetwc 3 , .Xr compat 5 .Sh STANDARDS The .Fn fgetpos , .Fn fsetpos , .Fn fseek , .Fn ftell , and .Fn rewind functions conform to .St -isoC . .Pp The .Fn fseeko and .Fn ftello functions conform to .St -p1003.1-2001 .