Tracking Issue for std::io::Seek::rewind()

[ijackson]

Feature gate: #![feature(seek_rewind)]

This is a tracking issue for the convenience method std::io::Seek::rewind().

Public API

pub trait Seek {
    /// This is a convenience method, equivalent to `seek(SeekFrom::Start(0))`.
    fn rewind(&mut self) -> Result<()>;
}

Steps / History

• Implementation: Provide io::Seek::rewind #85146
• Final commenting period (FCP)
• Stabilization PR: Stabilize Seek::rewind() #86794

Unresolved Questions

• None yet.

[m-ou-se]

@rfcbot merge

[rfcbot]

Team member @m-ou-se 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
• @sfackler
• @yaahc

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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.

The RFC will be merged soon.

[poliorcetics]

I missed it completely in nigthlies sadly, else I would have proposed it returns the u64 of the old offset, because currently it cannot replace let old_offset = buf.seek(SeekFrom::Start(0))?;, only the form without assignement.