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lseek.2: Remove slightly bogus advice about race conditions 

The page already (by now) contains a reference to open(2)
for a discussion of open file descriptions. Leave it at that,
since the reader can then deduce how things work.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -260,13 +260,6 @@ on a terminal device fails with the error
\fBESPIPE\fP.
.\" Other systems return the number of written characters,
.\" using SEEK_SET to set the counter. (Of written characters.)
.PP
Note that file descriptors created by
.BR dup (2)
or
.BR fork (2)
refer to the same open file descriptions (and thus file offsets),
so seeking on such files may be subject to race conditions.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR dup (2),
.BR fork (2),