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| author | Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-07-03 02:55:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Mike Pritchard <mpp@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-07-03 02:55:10 +0000 |
| commit | e9c032def82a5ce6eb9b711a60ab1ff7ec975a45 (patch) | |
| tree | f0b6e9bb5f76f8d10551d7375c29dc1c4f0e40a5 /lib/libc/sys/lseek.2 | |
| parent | 8ae7d6b0cb4467a7430a80c593c51e9db99c08ba (diff) | |
| download | src-e9c032def82a5ce6eb9b711a60ab1ff7ec975a45.tar.gz src-e9c032def82a5ce6eb9b711a60ab1ff7ec975a45.zip | |
Describe the "file pointer" in lseeks' man page a bit better
so that it is less likely someone will confuse it with a
"FILE *" type pointer.
Submitted by: Based on James Raynard's patch
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=16937
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/lseek.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/lseek.2 | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/lseek.2 b/lib/libc/sys/lseek.2 index ef38451b17c2..b3892e3bcf82 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/lseek.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/lseek.2 @@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ The argument must be an open file descriptor. .Fn Lseek -repositions the file pointer +repositions the file position pointer associated with the file +descriptor .Fa fildes as follows: .Bl -item -offset indent @@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ is set to indicate the error. .Sh ERRORS .Fn Lseek -will fail and the file pointer will remain unchanged if: +will fail and the file position pointer will remain unchanged if: .Bl -tag -width [EINVAL] .It Bq Er EBADF .Em Fildes |