Virtual Method

GioSeekableseek

Declaration

gboolean
seek (
  GSeekable* seekable,
  goffset offset,
  GSeekType type,
  GCancellable* cancellable,
  GError** error
)

Description

Seeks in the stream by the given offset, modified by type.

Attempting to seek past the end of the stream will have different results depending on if the stream is fixed-sized or resizable. If the stream is resizable then seeking past the end and then writing will result in zeros filling the empty space. Seeking past the end of a resizable stream and reading will result in EOF. Seeking past the end of a fixed-sized stream will fail.

Any operation that would result in a negative offset will fail.

If cancellable is not NULL, then the operation can be cancelled by triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation was cancelled, the error G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED will be returned.

Parameters

`offset`	`goffset`
	A #goffset.
`type`	`GSeekType`
	A `GSeekType`.
`cancellable`	`GCancellable`
	Optional `GCancellable` object, `NULL` to ignore.
	The argument can be `NULL`.
	The data is owned by the caller of the function.
`error`	`GError **`
	The return location for a `GError*`, or `NULL`.

Return value

Returns:	`gboolean`
	`TRUE` if successful. If an error has occurred, this function will return `FALSE` and set `error` appropriately if present.