LDP: Update original to LDP v3.68

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

diff --git a/original/man2/pread.2 b/original/man2/pread.2
index 1d648b1..9dedcca 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man2/pread.2
+++ b/original/man2/pread.2
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
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-.TH PREAD 2 2013-04-01 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH PREAD 2 2013-06-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 pread, pwrite \- read from or write to a file descriptor at a given offset
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -115,6 +115,14 @@ on older kernels without the system calls) was added in glibc 2.1.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 POSIX.1-2001.
 .SH NOTES
+The
+.BR pread ()
+and
+.BR pwrite ()
+system calls are especially useful in multithreaded applications.
+They allow multiple threads to perform I/O on the same file descriptor
+without being affected by changes to the file offset by other threads.
+
 On Linux, the underlying system calls were renamed
 in kernel 2.6:
 .BR pread ()
@@ -152,3 +160,12 @@ appends data to the end of the file, regardless of the value of
 .BR read (2),
 .BR readv (2),
 .BR write (2)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.68 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.