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authorCorinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>2010-04-12 15:36:48 +0000
committerCorinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>2010-04-12 15:36:48 +0000
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* posix.sgml (std-notes): Improve lseek description.
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@@ -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