.\" Copyright (C) 1995 Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
.\" Written 10 June 1995 by Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>
+.\" and Copyright (C) 2007, 2015, 2020, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
.\"
.\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM)
.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
system call repositions the offset of the open file description associated
with the file descriptor
.I fd
-to
-.I (offset_high<<32) | offset_low
-bytes relative to the beginning of the file, the current file offset,
+to the value
+.IP
+(offset_high << 32) | offset_low
+.PP
+This new offset is a byte offset
+relative to the beginning of the file, the current file offset,
or the end of the file, depending on whether
.I whence
is
or
.BR SEEK_END ,
respectively.
-It returns the resulting file position in the argument
+.PP
+The new file offset is returned in the argument
.IR result .
.PP
This system call exists on various 32-bit platforms to support