Sets the absolute position of the file pointer for the next I/O operation.

#include <io.h>

long ltell (int handle);

long64 _ltell64 (int handle);

Parameters

handle

Descriptor referring to an open file.

Remarks

This function is equivalent to:

lseek (handle, 0L, SEEK_CUR)

Return Values

The absolute position of the next byte in the file.

Success.

-1L and the function sets errno to one of these values:

EBADF	Invalid file descriptor.
EIMPL	Library call is not implemented in the current configuration

Failure.

Requirements

See Also

lseek _lseek64