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authorRobert Millan <rmh@gnu.org>2012-04-06 21:38:42 +0200
committerAndreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>2012-04-06 21:38:42 +0200
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Fix typo in manual
lseek refers to WHENCE when it really means OFFSET
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--NEWS4
-rw-r--r--manual/llio.texi6
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 10288cea35..6a800cb3da 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+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.
+
2012-04-06 Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
* nss/nss_db/db-initgroups.c: Include <string.h> for strlen and
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8218731a41..2aa68df77f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ Version 2.16
174, 350, 369, 411, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2551, 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563,
2565, 2566, 2576, 2678, 3335, 3866, 3868, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596,
- 4822, 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6730, 6770, 6884, 6907, 6911, 9739,
- 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140, 10210, 10346, 10545, 10716, 11174, 11322,
+ 4822, 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6486, 6471, 6730, 6770, 6884, 6907, 6911,
+ 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140, 10210, 10346, 10545, 10716, 11174, 11322,
11365, 11451, 11494, 12047, 12340, 13058, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528,
13529, 13530, 13531, 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555,
13559, 13566, 13583, 13592, 13618, 13637, 13656, 13658, 13673, 13691,
diff --git a/manual/llio.texi b/manual/llio.texi
index b33909fac8..1da612accb 100644
--- 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