pread.2: Note that glibc emulation for these calls uses lseek(2)

(This makes it clearer that the emulated calls are not atomic.)

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
.\"
.TH PREAD 2 1999-01-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH PREAD 2 2008-120-3 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
pread, pwrite \- read from or write to a file descriptor at a given offset
.SH SYNOPSIS
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system calls were added to Linux in
version 2.1.60; the entries in the i386 system call table were added
in 2.1.69.
The libc support (including emulation on older kernels
without the system calls) was added in glibc 2.1.
The libc support (including emulation using
.BR lseek (2)
on older kernels without the system calls) was added in glibc 2.1.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
POSIX.1-2001.
.SH "SEE ALSO"