Method

GLibIOChannelseek_position

Declaration

GIOStatus
g_io_channel_seek_position (
  GIOChannel* channel,
  gint64 offset,
  GSeekType type,
  GError** error
)

Description

Replacement for g_io_channel_seek() with the new API.

Parameters

offset

Type: gint64

The offset in bytes from the position specified by type.

type

Type: GSeekType

A GSeekType. The type G_SEEK_CUR is only allowed in those cases where a call to g_io_channel_set_encoding () is allowed. See the documentation for g_io_channel_set_encoding () for details.

error

Type: GError **

The return location for a recoverable error.

The argument can be NULL.

If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to a NULL GError*.

The argument will left initialized to NULL by the method if there are no errors.

In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.

Return value

Type: GIOStatus

The status of the operation.