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| -rw-r--r-- | man2/pread.2 | 10 |
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diff --git a/man2/pread.2 b/man2/pread.2 index 1d648b15ef..1972fe8501 100644 --- a/man2/pread.2 +++ b/man2/pread.2 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" %%%LICENSE_END .\" -.TH PREAD 2 2013-04-01 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH PREAD 2 2013-06-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME pread, pwrite \- read from or write to a file descriptor at a given offset .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -115,6 +115,14 @@ on older kernels without the system calls) was added in glibc 2.1. .SH CONFORMING TO POSIX.1-2001. .SH NOTES +The +.BR pread () +and +.BR pwrite () +system calls are especially useful in multithreaded applications. +They allow multiple threads to perform I/O on the same file descriptor +without being affected by changes to the file offset by other threads. + On Linux, the underlying system calls were renamed in kernel 2.6: .BR pread () |