Section 2 · System calls

llseek.2

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_llseek

NAME
LIBRARY
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
ERRORS
VERSIONS
STANDARDS
SEE ALSO

NAME

_llseek − reposition read/write file offset

LIBRARY

Standard C library (libc, −lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/syscall.h> /* Definition of SYS_* constants */ **
#include <unistd.h>**

int syscall(SYS__llseek, unsigned int fd**, unsigned long** offset_high**,
unsigned long** offset_low**, loff_t *result,
unsigned int** whence**);**

Note: glibc provides no wrapper for _llseek(), necessitating the use of syscall(2).

DESCRIPTION

Note: for information about the llseek(3) library function, see lseek64(3).

The _llseek() system call repositions the offset of the open file description associated with the file descriptor fd to the value

(offset_high << 32) | offset_low

This new offset is a byte offset relative to the beginning of the file, the current file offset, or the end of the file, depending on whether whence is SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, or SEEK_END, respectively.

The new file offset is returned in the argument result. The type loff_t is a 64-bit signed type.

This system call exists on various 32-bit platforms to support seeking to large file offsets.

RETURN VALUE

Upon successful completion, _llseek() returns 0. Otherwise, a value of −1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS


	EBADF		fd is not an open file descriptor.
	EFAULT		Problem with copying results to user space.
	EINVAL		whence is invalid.

VERSIONS

You probably want to use the lseek(2) wrapper function instead.

STANDARDS

Linux.