pread.2: Note that glibc emulation for these calls uses lseek(2)

(This makes it clearer that the emulated calls are not atomic.)

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man2/pread.2 b/man2/pread.2
index 82274de9950aeba3744994f14bf7ae9f00d9a7b3..e548c4c6cdd2d09881c93d548f698cef7f700e84 100644 (file)
--- a/man2/pread.2
+++ b/man2/pread.2
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
 .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
 .\"
-.TH PREAD 2 1999-01-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH PREAD 2 2008-120-3 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 pread, pwrite \- read from or write to a file descriptor at a given offset
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -92,8 +92,9 @@ and
 system calls were added to Linux in
 version 2.1.60; the entries in the i386 system call table were added
 in 2.1.69.
-The libc support (including emulation on older kernels
-without the system calls) was added in glibc 2.1.
+The libc support (including emulation using
+.BR lseek (2)
+on older kernels without the system calls) was added in glibc 2.1.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 POSIX.1-2001.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"