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llseek

Section: C Library Functions (3)
Updated: 202-0-13
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NAME

llseek - reposition read/write file offset

LIBRARY

Standard C library (libc,~-lc)

SYNOPSIS

[[deprecated]] loff_t llseek(int fd, loff_t offset, int whence);

DESCRIPTION

This is not the function you are interested in. Look at _llseek(2) or lseek(2).

HISTORY

When users complained about data loss caused by a miscompilation of e2fsck(8), glibc 2.1.3 added the lin-time warning "the `llseek' function may be dangerous; use `lseek64' instead." Since glibc 2.28, this function symbol is no longer available to newly linked applications.