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author Paul Eggert <eggert@penguin.cs.ucla.edu>
date Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:16:27 -0800 (2014-02-25)
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@node pread
@section @code{pread}
@findex pread

POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/pread.html}

Gnulib module: pread

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This function is missing on some platforms:
HP-UX 10, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
@item
On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, this function may not
work correctly on files larger than 2 GB.  (Cf. @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE}.)
@item
This function returns zero instead of positive values when large file support
is enabled on some platforms:
HP-UX 11.11.
@item
This function does not fail on pipes on some platforms:
HP-UX 11.31.
@end itemize

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@end itemize