Reference: telldir
Author: Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour & Nathan Patwardhan
Date: 1999-07-02T01:38:51Z

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| Chapter 5 Function Reference |

## telldir

    telldir dirhandle

Returns the current position of the `readdir` routines on a directory handle (dirhandle). This value may be given to `seekdir` to access a particular location in a directory. The function has the same caveats about possible directory compaction as the corresponding system library routine. This function may not be implemented everywhere that `readdir` is. Even if it is, no calculation may be done with the return value. It's just an opaque value, meaningful only to `seekdir`.

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