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-
- package IO::Seekable;
-
- =head1 NAME
-
- IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for I/O objects
-
- =head1 SYNOPSIS
-
- use IO::Seekable;
- package IO::Something;
- @ISA = qw(IO::Seekable);
-
- =head1 DESCRIPTION
-
- C<IO::Seekable> does not have a constructor of its own as it is intended to
- be inherited by other C<IO::Handle> based objects. It provides methods
- which allow seeking of the file descriptors.
-
- =over 4
-
- =item $io->getpos
-
- Returns an opaque value that represents the current position of the
- IO::File, or C<undef> if this is not possible (eg an unseekable stream such
- as a terminal, pipe or socket). If the fgetpos() function is available in
- your C library it is used to implements getpos, else perl emulates getpos
- using C's ftell() function.
-
- =item $io->setpos
-
- Uses the value of a previous getpos call to return to a previously visited
- position. Returns "0 but true" on success, C<undef> on failure.
-
- =back
-
- See L<perlfunc> for complete descriptions of each of the following
- supported C<IO::Seekable> methods, which are just front ends for the
- corresponding built-in functions:
-
- =over 4
-
- =item $io->seek ( POS, WHENCE )
-
- Seek the IO::File to position POS, relative to WHENCE:
-
- =over 8
-
- =item WHENCE=0 (SEEK_SET)
-
- POS is absolute position. (Seek relative to the start of the file)
-
- =item WHENCE=1 (SEEK_CUR)
-
- POS is an offset from the current position. (Seek relative to current)
-
- =item WHENCE=2 (SEEK_END)
-
- POS is an offset from the end of the file. (Seek relative to end)
-
- =back
-
- The SEEK_* constants can be imported from the C<Fcntl> module if you
- don't wish to use the numbers C<0> C<1> or C<2> in your code.
-
- Returns C<1> upon success, C<0> otherwise.
-
- =item $io->sysseek( POS, WHENCE )
-
- Similar to $io->seek, but sets the IO::File's position using the system
- call lseek(2) directly, so will confuse most perl IO operators except
- sysread and syswrite (see L<perlfunc> for full details)
-
- Returns the new position, or C<undef> on failure. A position
- of zero is returned as the string C<"0 but true">
-
- =item $io->tell
-
- Returns the IO::File's current position, or -1 on error.
-
- =back
-
- =head1 SEE ALSO
-
- L<perlfunc>,
- L<perlop/"I/O Operators">,
- L<IO::Handle>
- L<IO::File>
-
- =head1 HISTORY
-
- Derived from FileHandle.pm by Graham Barr E<lt>gbarr@pobox.comE<gt>
-
- =cut
-
- use 5.006_001;
- use Carp;
- use strict;
- our($VERSION, @EXPORT, @ISA);
- use IO::Handle ();
- # XXX we can't get these from IO::Handle or we'll get prototype
- # mismatch warnings on C<use POSIX; use IO::File;> :-(
- use Fcntl qw(SEEK_SET SEEK_CUR SEEK_END);
- require Exporter;
-
- @EXPORT = qw(SEEK_SET SEEK_CUR SEEK_END);
- @ISA = qw(Exporter);
-
- $VERSION = "1.08_00";
- $VERSION = eval $VERSION;
-
- sub seek {
- @_ == 3 or croak 'usage: $io->seek(POS, WHENCE)';
- seek($_[0], $_[1], $_[2]);
- }
-
- sub sysseek {
- @_ == 3 or croak 'usage: $io->sysseek(POS, WHENCE)';
- sysseek($_[0], $_[1], $_[2]);
- }
-
- sub tell {
- @_ == 1 or croak 'usage: $io->tell()';
- tell($_[0]);
- }
-
- 1;
-