fopen.3: Minor tweaks to Elliot's patch

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

diff --git a/man3/fopen.3 b/man3/fopen.3
index 5f4abb8eae89f175e3f1f87d8482c8157e4b2be1..0a6343aead9c9386f2583b6da5a6cbc213042fea 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/fopen.3
+++ b/man3/fopen.3
@@ -101,9 +101,10 @@ The stream is positioned at the end of the file.
 Open for reading and appending (writing at end of file).
 The file is created if it does not exist.
 Output is always appended to the end of the file.
+POSIX is silent on what the initial read position is when using this mode.
 For glibc, the initial file position for reading is at
 the beginning of the file, but for Android/BSD/MacOS, the
-initial file position for reading is the end of the file.
+initial file position for reading is at the end of the file.
 .PP
 The
 .I mode