Commit 6b1a3f73 authored by Brad Fitzpatrick's avatar Brad Fitzpatrick

os: document that File.Seek works on directories, but not portably

Updates #36019

Change-Id: I9fea2c3c5138e2233290979e4724f6e7b91da652
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/213439Reviewed-by: default avatarIan Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
parent d6bf2d7b
......@@ -204,6 +204,10 @@ func (f *File) WriteAt(b []byte, off int64) (n int, err error) {
// relative to the current offset, and 2 means relative to the end.
// It returns the new offset and an error, if any.
// The behavior of Seek on a file opened with O_APPEND is not specified.
//
// If f is a directory, the behavior of Seek varies by operating
// system; you can seek to the beginning of the directory on Unix-like
// operating systems, but not on Windows.
func (f *File) Seek(offset int64, whence int) (ret int64, err error) {
if err := f.checkValid("seek"); err != nil {
return 0, err
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