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Diffstat (limited to 'man/man3/posix_fallocate.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man3/posix_fallocate.3 | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man/man3/posix_fallocate.3 b/man/man3/posix_fallocate.3 index 29bd8f72f6..4cbd947d6d 100644 --- a/man/man3/posix_fallocate.3 +++ b/man/man3/posix_fallocate.3 @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Standard C library .nf .B #include <fcntl.h> .P -.BI "int posix_fallocate(int " fd ", off_t " offset ", off_t " len ); +.BI "int posix_fallocate(int " fd ", off_t " offset ", off_t " size ); .fi .P .ad l @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ file descriptor for the bytes in the range starting at .I offset and continuing for -.I len +.I size bytes. After a successful call to .BR posix_fallocate (), @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ subsequent writes to bytes in the specified range are guaranteed not to fail because of lack of disk space. .P If the size of the file is less than -.IR offset + len , +.IR offset + size , then the file is increased to this size; otherwise the file size is left unchanged. .SH RETURN VALUE @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ is not set. is not a valid file descriptor, or is not opened for writing. .TP .B EFBIG -.I offset+len +.I offset+size exceeds the maximum file size. .TP .B EINTR @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ A signal was caught during execution. .B EINVAL .I offset was less than 0, or -.I len +.I size was less than or equal to 0, or the underlying filesystem does not support the operation. .TP @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ POSIX.1-2008 says that an implementation give the .B EINVAL error if -.I len +.I size was 0, or .I offset was less than 0. @@ -129,13 +129,13 @@ POSIX.1-2001 says that an implementation give the .B EINVAL error if -.I len +.I size is less than 0, or .I offset was less than 0, and .I may give the error if -.I len +.I size equals zero. .SH CAVEATS In the glibc implementation, |