From e9c032def82a5ce6eb9b711a60ab1ff7ec975a45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Pritchard Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 02:55:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Describe the "file pointer" in lseeks' man page a bit better so that it is less likely someone will confuse it with a "FILE *" type pointer. Submitted by: Based on James Raynard's patch --- lib/libc/sys/lseek.2 | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/lseek.2 b/lib/libc/sys/lseek.2 index ef38451b17c2..b3892e3bcf82 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/lseek.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/lseek.2 @@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ The argument must be an open file descriptor. .Fn Lseek -repositions the file pointer +repositions the file position pointer associated with the file +descriptor .Fa fildes as follows: .Bl -item -offset indent @@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ is set to indicate the error. .Sh ERRORS .Fn Lseek -will fail and the file pointer will remain unchanged if: +will fail and the file position pointer will remain unchanged if: .Bl -tag -width [EINVAL] .It Bq Er EBADF .Em Fildes