<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>db_env_set_func_seek</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="apiReference.css" type="text/css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.73.2" /> <link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Berkeley DB C API Reference" /> <link rel="up" href="setfunc.html" title="Appendix C. Berkeley DB Application Space Static Functions" /> <link rel="prev" href="db_env_set_func_rename.html" title="db_env_set_func_rename" /> <link rel="next" href="db_env_set_func_unlink.html" title="db_env_set_func_unlink" /> </head> <body> <div xmlns="" class="navheader"> <div class="libver"> <p>Library Version 11.2.5.3</p> </div> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center">db_env_set_func_seek</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="db_env_set_func_rename.html">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center">Appendix C. Berkeley DB Application Space Static Functions </th> <td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="db_env_set_func_unlink.html">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr /> </div> <div class="sect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="db_env_set_func_seek"></a>db_env_set_func_seek</h2> </div> </div> </div> <pre class="programlisting">#include <db.h> int db_env_set_func_seek(int (*func_seek)(int fd, off_t offset, int whence)); </pre> <p> The Berkeley DB library requires the ability to specify that a subsequent read from or write to a file will occur at a specific location in that file. </p> <p> The <code class="function">db_env_set_func_seek()</code> function configures all operations performed by a process and all of its threads of control, not operations confined to a single database environment. </p> <p> Although the <code class="function">db_env_set_func_seek()</code> function may be called at any time during the life of the application, it should normally be called before making calls to the <a class="xref" href="envcreate.html" title="db_env_create">db_env_create</a> or <a class="xref" href="dbcreate.html" title="db_create">db_create</a> methods. </p> <p> The <code class="function">db_env_set_func_seek()</code> <span> function returns a non-zero error value on failure and 0 on success. </span> </p> <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h3 class="title"><a id="idp63684616"></a>Parameters</h3> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sect3" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="idp63684808"></a>func_seek</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p> The <span class="bold"><strong>func_seek</strong></span> parameter is the function which seeks to a specific location in a file. </p> <p> The <span class="bold"><strong>fd</strong></span> parameter is an open file descriptor on the file. </p> <p> The <span class="bold"><strong>seek</strong></span> function must cause a subsequent read from or write to the file to occur at the byte offset specified by the <span class="bold"><strong>offset</strong></span> parameter. </p> <p> The <span class="bold"><strong>whence</strong></span> parameter specifies where in the file the byte offset is relative to, as described by the IEEE/ANSI Std 1003.1 (POSIX) <span class="bold"><strong>lseek</strong></span> system call. </p> <p> The <span class="bold"><strong>func_seek</strong></span> function must return the value of <span class="bold"><strong>errno</strong></span> on failure and 0 on success. </p> </div> </div> <div class="sect2" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h3 class="title"><a id="idp63682440"></a>See Also</h3> </div> </div> </div> <p> <a href="../../programmer_reference/program_runtime.html" class="olink">Run-time configuration</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr /> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="db_env_set_func_rename.html">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="u" href="setfunc.html">Up</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="db_env_set_func_unlink.html">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">db_env_set_func_rename </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> db_env_set_func_unlink</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>