The seekdir function sets the position of the next readdir operation on the directory stream specified by dir_pointer to the position specified by location. The value of location should be returned from an earlier call to telldir. If the value of location was not returned by a call to the telldir function, or if there was an intervening call to the rewinddir function on this directory stream, the effect is unspecified. The type DIR, defined in the <dirent.h> header file, represents a directory stream. A directory stream is an ordered sequence of all the directory entries in a particular directory. Directory entries represent files. You can remove files from or add files to a directory asynchronously to the operation of the readdir function. See readdir, rewinddir, and telldir.