.\" Modified 2001-09-24 by Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
.\" Modified 2003-08-21 by Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>
.\"
-.TH LSEEK 2 2001-09-24 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH LSEEK 2 2010-09-11 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
lseek \- reposition read/write file offset
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BR lseek ()
returns the resulting offset location as measured in bytes from the
beginning of the file.
-Otherwise, a value of \fI(off_t)\ \-1\fP is returned and
+On error, the value \fI(off_t)\ \-1\fP is returned and
.I errno
is set to indicate the error.
.SH ERRORS
L_INCR SEEK_CUR
L_XTND SEEK_END
.TE
-.PP
-SVr1-3 returns \fIlong\fP instead of \fIoff_t\fP, BSD returns \fIint\fP.
+.\" .PP
+.\" SVr1-3 returns \fIlong\fP instead of \fIoff_t\fP,
+.\" (ancient) BSD returns \fIint\fP.
.PP
Note that file descriptors created by
.BR dup (2)