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| author | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2010-04-12 19:36:48 +0400 |
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| committer | Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> | 2010-04-12 19:36:48 +0400 |
| commit | 6b1c332f28cb09c67ccd529100f6ec22ccba7cd3 (patch) | |
| tree | 3198263b195dcf7190c4ab5eb021f3a044fa7b73 /winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml | |
| parent | 42e9cefd711f5eb832ef907714e710c5d5524144 (diff) | |
* posix.sgml (std-notes): Improve lseek description.
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| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml b/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml index b7358523d..6a3bc2298 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml +++ b/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml @@ -1449,8 +1449,9 @@ only support ITIMER_REAL for now.</para> a true hardlink. This is true at least for FAT and FAT32 filesystems. NTFS supports hardlinks. </para> -<para><function>lseek</function> only works properly on binary -files.</para> +<para><function>lseek</function> only works properly on files opened in +binary mode. On files opened in textmode (via mount mode or explicit +open flag) its positioning is potentially unreliable.</para> <para><function>setuid</function> is only safe against reverting the user switch after a call to one of the exec(2) functions took place. Windows |