[CC+=linux-man@] Hi Matthew, On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 18:57, Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The current (*) text of the lseek manpage is ambiguous about the behaviour > of lseek(SEEK_DATA) for a file which is entirely a hole (or the end of > the file is a hole and the pos lies within the hole). The draft POSIX > language is specific (ENXIO is returned when whence is SEEK_DATA and > offset lies within the final hole of the file). Could I trouble you to > wordsmith that in? > > (*) I'm looking at 5.05 dated 2019-03-06 > > If you want to look at the draft POSIX text, it's here: > https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=415 Thanks. I applied the patch below. Cheers, Michael diff --git a/man2/lseek.2 b/man2/lseek.2 index 32331aba5..04972c082 100644 --- a/man2/lseek.2 +++ b/man2/lseek.2 @@ -212,7 +212,13 @@ or .BR SEEK_HOLE , and .I offset -is beyond the end of the file. +is beyond the end of the file, or +.I whence +is +.B SEEK_DATA +and +.I offset +is within a hole at the end of the file. .TP .B EOVERFLOW .\" HP-UX 11 says EINVAL for this case (but POSIX.1 says EOVERFLOW) -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
