Re: ftell, fgetpos, etc.

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 01:16:48AM -0500, Scott Gifford wrote:
> Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> writes:
> >
> > Is there something else available?  Is there another way to use the tools
> > I have already mentioned?  Is there a clean way to move to 64-bit
> > relatively system-independent disk addresses?  Is there a standard way?
> 
> The very low-level function you are looking for is lseek or lseek64.
> That won't play well with the stdio library, unfortunately, but you
> may find fseeko() and ftello() will work.  They use a file position
> that is of type "off_t", which is usually be 64-bit on newer Unixes
> (or at least can be with the right compilation options).  See:
> 
>     http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lfs20mar.html
> 
> and the appropriate manpages, and I think that will set you on the
> right track.


Thanks.  That looks like the information I'm looking for.

-- hendrik