(split) LDP: Update original to LDP v3.41.

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man2 / pread.2

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@@ -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 2010-11-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH PREAD 2 2012-04-30 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 pread, pwrite \- read from or write to a file descriptor at a given offset
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -128,6 +128,18 @@ The glibc
 and
 .BR pwrite ()
 wrapper functions transparently deal with the change.
+.SH BUGS
+POSIX requires that opening a file with the
+.BR O_APPEND
+flag should have no affect on the location at which
+.BR pwrite ()
+writes data.
+However, on Linux, if a file is opened with
+.\" FIXME https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43178
+.BR O_APPEND ,
+.BR pwrite ()
+appends data to the end of the file, regardless of the value of
+.IR offset .
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR lseek (2),
 .BR read (2),