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diff --git a/man2/llseek.2 b/man2/llseek.2 index d9cd6fe0d..3f43b0147 100644 --- a/man2/llseek.2 +++ b/man2/llseek.2 @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ .\" Copyright (C) 1995 Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) .\" Written 10 June 1995 by Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl> +.\" and Copyright (C) 2007, 2015, 2020, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> .\" .\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM) .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this @@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ .\" .\" Modified Thu Oct 31 15:16:23 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> .\" -.TH LLSEEK 2 2017-09-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH LLSEEK 2 2020-12-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME _llseek \- reposition read/write file offset .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -41,14 +42,22 @@ _llseek \- reposition read/write file offset .IR Note : There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES. .SH DESCRIPTION +Note: for information about the +.BR llseek (3) +library function, see +.BR lseek64 (3). +.PP The .BR _llseek () system call repositions the offset of the open file description associated with the file descriptor .I fd -to -.I (offset_high<<32) | offset_low -bytes relative to the beginning of the file, the current file offset, +to the value +.IP +(offset_high << 32) | offset_low +.PP +This new offset is a byte offset +relative to the beginning of the file, the current file offset, or the end of the file, depending on whether .I whence is @@ -57,8 +66,12 @@ is or .BR SEEK_END , respectively. -It returns the resulting file position in the argument +.PP +The new file offset is returned in the argument .IR result . +The type +.I loff_t +is a 64-bit signed type. .PP This system call exists on various 32-bit platforms to support seeking to large file offsets. @@ -96,7 +109,7 @@ wrapper function instead. .BR open (2), .BR lseek64 (3) .SH COLOPHON -This page is part of release 5.09 of the Linux +This page is part of release 5.10 of the Linux .I man-pages project. A description of the project, |