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From: Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@drabczyk.org>
To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fread.3: Explain that file position is moved after calling fread()/fwrite()
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 20:26:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200616182659.12365-1-arkadiusz@drabczyk.org> (raw)

Corresponding manpage on FreeBSD already contains that information.

Signed-off-by: Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadiusz@drabczyk.org>
---
 man3/fread.3 | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man3/fread.3 b/man3/fread.3
index 2dd7be9..97a306e 100644
--- a/man3/fread.3
+++ b/man3/fread.3
@@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ is 1.
 If an error occurs, or the end of the file is reached,
 the return value is a short item count (or zero).
 .PP
+The file position indicator for the stream is advanced by the number
+of characters successfully read or written.
+.PP
 .BR fread ()
 does not distinguish between end-of-file and error, and callers must use
 .BR feof (3)
-- 
2.9.0


             reply	other threads:[~2020-06-16 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-16 18:26 Arkadiusz Drabczyk [this message]
2020-06-16 19:00 ` [PATCH] fread.3: Explain that file position is moved after calling fread()/fwrite() Jakub Wilk
2020-06-16 22:50   ` Arkadiusz Drabczyk
2020-06-17  7:46     ` AW: " Walter Harms
2020-06-17 17:30       ` Arkadiusz Drabczyk
2020-06-18  8:37         ` AW: " Walter Harms
2020-06-18 11:43           ` Arkadiusz Drabczyk
2020-06-18 14:32             ` AW: [PATCH] fread.3: return value Walter Harms
2020-06-18 19:16               ` Arkadiusz Drabczyk

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