seek

open fun seek(offset: Long, type: <Error class: unknown class>, cancellable: Cancellable? = null): <Error class: unknown class><Boolean>

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.

Return

true if successful. If an error has occurred, this function will return false and set @error appropriately if present.

Parameters

offset

a #goffset.

type

a #GSeekType.

cancellable

optional #GCancellable object, null to ignore.