Fix typo in manual - BZ#6486

Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.com
Fri Apr 6 19:40:00 GMT 2012


The lseek documentation refers to WHENCE when it really means OFFSET, 
fixed with the appended patch, committed as obvious,

Andreas

2012-04-06  Robert Millan  <rmh@gnu.org>

	[BZ #6486]
	* manual/llio.texi (File Position Primitive): lseek
	refers to WHENCE when it really means OFFSET.

--- a/manual/llio.texi
+++ b/manual/llio.texi
@@ -634,15 +634,15 @@ be one of the symbolic constants @code{SEEK_SET}, 
@code{SEEK_CUR}, or

  @table @code
  @item SEEK_SET
-Specifies that @var{whence} is a count of characters from the beginning
+Specifies that @var{offset} is a count of characters from the beginning
  of the file.

  @item SEEK_CUR
-Specifies that @var{whence} is a count of characters from the current
+Specifies that @var{offset} is a count of characters from the current
  file position.  This count may be positive or negative.

  @item SEEK_END
-Specifies that @var{whence} is a count of characters from the end of
+Specifies that @var{offset} is a count of characters from the end of
  the file.  A negative count specifies a position within the current
  extent of the file; a positive count specifies a position past the
  current end.  If you set the position past the current end, and

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