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| author | Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> | 1994-10-11 03:51:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> | 1994-10-11 03:51:58 +0000 |
| commit | 10b5dbbbf97f3e708722d7c4167a7d43e9fa77ae (patch) | |
| tree | 279899933365ef90759cb2ee0fae9252b57d77eb /manual | |
| parent | db40350c790e18c154b4e99a82adca1f0ef82549 (diff) | |
(write): Fix typo.
(lseek): Say that extending file fills with zeros.
Diffstat (limited to 'manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/llio.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/manual/llio.texi b/manual/llio.texi index f07ea5fee6..59afe58247 100644 --- a/manual/llio.texi +++ b/manual/llio.texi @@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ functions that read from streams, such as @code{fgetc}. @deftypefun ssize_t write (int @var{filedes}, const void *@var{buffer}, size_t @var{size}) The @code{write} function writes up to @var{size} bytes from @var{buffer} to the file with descriptor @var{filedes}. The data in -@var{buffer} is not necessarily a character string and a null character +@var{buffer} is not necessarily a character string and a null character is output like any other character. The return value is the number of bytes actually written. This is @@ -501,7 +501,8 @@ current file position. You can set the file position past the current end of the file. This does not by itself make the file longer; @code{lseek} never changes the file. But subsequent output at that position will extend the file's -size. +size. Characters between the previous end of file and the new position +are filled with zeros. If the file position cannot be changed, or the operation is in some way invalid, @code{lseek} returns a value of @code{-1}. The following |