BloombergLP::bdlsb::FixedMemOutput::pubseekpos

Set the position indicator to the specified position.

Synopsis

Declared in <bdlsb_fixedmemoutput.h>

pos_type
pubseekpos(
    pos_type position,
    std::ios_base::openmode which = bsl::ios_base::in | bsl::ios_base::out);

Description

Set the position indicator to the specified position and return the resulting absolute position on success or pos_type(-1) on failure. Optionally specify which area of the stream buffer. The seekpos operation will fail if which does not include the flag bsl::ios_base::out or if position is less then zero or greater than the value returned by length.

Return Value

resulting absolute position, or pos_type(-1) on failure

Parameters

NameDescription
positionabsolute write position to set
whichareas of the stream buffer; must include out