From f145728e612ce32a5d1473908659eae24dd54314 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 14:25:03 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- man2/pread.2 | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/pread.2 b/man2/pread.2 index 82274de99..e548c4c6c 100644 --- a/man2/pread.2 +++ b/man2/pread.2 @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ .\" 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 @@ -92,8 +92,9 @@ and 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"