Tracking Issue for `Seek::seek_relative`

[fintelia]

Feature gate: #![feature(seek_seek_relative)]

This is a tracking issue for adding an additional method on the std::io::Seek trait that can only seek relative to the current position and which doesn't return the stream position.

Public API

trait Seek {
    fn seek_relative(&mut self, offset: i64) -> Result<()>;
}

Steps / History

• Implementation: Add Seek::seek_relative #116750
• Final comment period (FCP)¹
• Stabilization PR

Unresolved Questions

• None yet.

Footnotes

1. https://std-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/feature-lifecycle/stabilization.html ↩

[fintelia]

Is this ready for a FCP?

[Amanieu]

@rfcbot fcp merge

This adds a seek_relative method to the Seek trait, which allows BufReader::seek_relative to be called from generic code over R: Seek + Read. This is an important optimization since BufReader::seek must always discard any currently buffered data.

[rfcbot]

Team member @Amanieu has proposed to merge this. The next step is review by the rest of the tagged team members:

• @Amanieu
• @BurntSushi
• @dtolnay
• @joshtriplett
• @m-ou-se

No concerns currently listed.

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[rfcbot]

🔔 This is now entering its final comment period, as per the review above. 🔔

[rfcbot]

The final comment period, with a disposition to merge, as per the review above, is now complete.

As the automated representative of the governance process, I would like to thank the author for their work and everyone else who contributed.

This will be merged soon.