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rewinddir(3)            Library Functions Manual            rewinddir(3)

NAME

       rewinddir - reset directory stream

LIBRARY

       Standard C library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

       #include <sys/types.h>
       #include <dirent.h>

       void rewinddir(DIR *dirp);

DESCRIPTION

       The rewinddir() function resets the position of the directory
       stream dirp to the beginning of the directory.

RETURN VALUE

       The rewinddir() function returns no value.

ATTRIBUTES

       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
       attributes(7).
       ┌─────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐
       │ Interface                           │ Attribute     │ Value   │
       ├─────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
       │ rewinddir()                         │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
       └─────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘

STANDARDS

       POSIX.1-2008.

HISTORY

       POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD.

SEE ALSO

       closedir(3), opendir(3), readdir(3), scandir(3), seekdir(3),
       telldir(3)

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Linux man-pages 6.9.1          2024-05-02                   rewinddir(3)

Pages that refer to this page: closedir(3), dirfd(3), opendir(3), readdir(3), scandir(3), seekdir(3), telldir(3)

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