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llseek.2: Some mild rewriting to ease reading of the info in this page 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.\" 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
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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
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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 .
.PP
This system call exists on various 32-bit platforms to support