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NAME
rewind — reset the file position indicator in a stream
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdio.h>
void rewind(FILE *stream);
DESCRIPTION
The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any
conflict between the requirements described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional.
This volume of POSIX.1‐2008 defers to the ISO C standard.
The call:
rewind(stream)
shall be equivalent to:
(void) fseek(stream, 0L, SEEK_SET)
except that rewind() shall also clear the error indicator.
Since rewind() does not return a value, an application wishing to detect errors should
clear errno, then call rewind(), and if errno is non-zero, assume an error has occurred.
RETURN VALUE
The rewind() function shall not return a value.
ERRORS
Refer to fseek() with the exception of [EINVAL] which does not apply.
The following sections are informative.
SEE ALSO
Section 2.5, Standard I/O Streams, fseek()
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, <stdio.h>
COPYRIGHT
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std
1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System
Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. (This is
POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the event of any discrep‐
ancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original
IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be
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