.\" Modified 2003-08-21 by Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>
.\" 2011-09-18, mtk, Added SEEK_DATA + SEEK_HOLE
.\"
-.TH LSEEK 2 2014-01-22 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH LSEEK 2 2014-06-13 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
lseek \- reposition read/write file offset
.SH SYNOPSIS
they are proposed for inclusion in the next POSIX revision (Issue 8).
.\" FIXME . Review http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=415 in the future
.SH NOTES
+See
+.BR open (2)
+for a discussion of the relationship between file descriptors,
+open file descriptions, and files.
+
Some devices are incapable of seeking and POSIX does not specify which
devices must support
.BR lseek ().
.BR lseek64 (3),
.BR posix_fallocate (3)
.SH COLOPHON
-This page is part of release 3.67 of the Linux
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
.I man-pages
project.
A description of the project,