Sets FILEHANDLE's system position in bytes using the system call lseek(2).
FILEHANDLE may be an expression whose value gives the name of the filehandle. The values
for WHENCE are 0 to set the new position to POSITION, 1 to set
the it to the current position plus POSITION, and 2 to set it to EOF plus
POSITION (typically negative).
Note the in bytes: even if the filehandle has been set to operate on characters
(for example by using the :utf8 I/O layer), tell() will return byte offsets,
not character offsets (because implementing that would render sysseek() very slow).
sysseek() bypasses normal buffered io, so mixing this with reads (other than sysread,
for example >< or read()) print, write, seek,
tell, or eof may cause confusion.
For WHENCE, you may also use the constants SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR,
and SEEK_END (start of the file, current position, end of the file) from the
Fcntl module. Use of the constants is also more portable than relying on 0, 1, and 2. For
example to define a "systell" function:
use Fnctl 'SEEK_CUR';
sub systell { sysseek($_[0], 0, SEEK_CUR) }
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Returns the new position, or the undefined value on failure. A position of zero is
returned as the string "0 but true"; thus sysseek
returns true on success and false on failure, yet you can still easily determine the new
position.
