In certain situations lseek(2) will return successful although if no seek
was performed. This can happen when operating on devices that don't support
seeking (older tape drives) or when operating on changeable media devices
(such as DVD or Blu-ray devices) without a medium inserted.
Document this within the man page and update the POSIX compliance while here.
PR: 162765
Submitted by: arundel@
Reported by: arundel@
Reviewed by: bcr (mentor)
Approved by: bcr (mentor)
MFC after: 1 week
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25646
Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.
Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
documented and easy to miss.
At the same time, it's pretty important for anyone who is trying to use
SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA in real app. Try to bridge that gap by making that
description more pronounced and also document how it affects failure codes.
Reviewed by: kib
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5162
Stop calling system calls "function calls".
Use "The .Fn system call" a-la "The .Nm utility".
When referring to a non-BSD implementation in
the HISTORY section, call syscall a function,
to be safe.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
