pread()
reads up to
count
bytes from file descriptor
fd
at offset
offset
(from the start of the file) into the buffer starting at
buf.
The file offset is not changed.
pwrite()
writes up to
count
bytes from the buffer starting at
buf
to the file descriptor
fd
at offset
offset.
The file offset is not changed.
The file referenced by
fd
must be capable of seeking.
RETURN VALUE
On success, the number of bytes read or written is returned (zero
indicates that nothing was written, in the case of
pwrite(),
or
end of file, in the case of
pread(),
or -1 on error, in which case
errno
is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
pread()
can fail and set
errno
to any error specified for
read(2)
or
lseek(2).
pwrite()
can fail and set
errno
to any error specified for
write(2)
or
lseek(2).
VERSIONS
The
pread()
and
pwrite()
system calls were added to Linux in
version 2.1.60; the entries in the i386 system call table were added
in 2.1.69.
The libc support (including emulation on older kernels
without the system calls) was added in glibc 2.1.
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