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To: will@iki.fi (Ville-Pertti Keinonen)
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Subject: Re: read() and pread() syscalls
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From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi>
Date: 12 Apr 1999 17:12:05 +0300
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will@iki.fi (Ville-Pertti Keinonen) writes:

> Actually, read(2) is equivalent to lseek(2)+pread(2)+lseek(2), with the

Minor clarification - they are not exactly equivalent, of course,
read(2) only looks up the file descriptor once.


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