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| author | Thorsten Lockert <tholo@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1997-04-12 18:09:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Thorsten Lockert <tholo@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1997-04-12 18:09:53 +0000 |
| commit | 112afc9f4da03b4af9cccc8e6866532aa695e881 (patch) | |
| tree | c78141f35c458abd3093e559844d0a3fdfab578f /lib | |
| parent | 47eaece550c09beae070603be304c6f7074ec323 (diff) | |
Be a bit more specific about EINVAL and negative offsets.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/lseek.2 | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/lseek.2 b/lib/libc/sys/lseek.2 index 9a4f2b89753..f32bc5490b7 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/lseek.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/lseek.2 @@ -120,7 +120,9 @@ is not an open file descriptor. is associated with a pipe, socket, or FIFO. .It Bq Er EINVAL .Fa Whence -is not a proper value or the resulting offset would be negative. +is not a proper value or the resulting offset would be negative +on a file system or special device that does not allow negative +offsets to be used. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr dup 2 , |