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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2019-06-23 15:35:29 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2019-06-23 15:40:32 -0700
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Document lseek SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE
* doc/posix-functions/lseek.texi (lseek): Document some systems that do not support SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE.
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+2019-06-23 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+ Document lseek SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE
+ * doc/posix-functions/lseek.texi (lseek):
+ Document some systems that do not support SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE.
+
2019-06-22 Akim Demaille <akim@lrde.epita.fr>
argmatch: put all the docs member last.
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/lseek.texi b/doc/posix-functions/lseek.texi
index 813bdd9b6b..b4d03f5287 100644
--- a/doc/posix-functions/lseek.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/lseek.texi
@@ -31,4 +31,7 @@ When the @code{lseek} function fails, POSIX says that the file offset remains
unchanged. But on some platforms, attempting to set a negative file offset
fails and sets the file offset to 0:
BeOS.
+@item
+Some systems do not support @code{SEEK_DATA} and @code{SEEK_HOLE}:
+AIX, HP-UX, Microsoft Windows, NetBSD, OpenBSD.
@end itemize

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