PREAD(3POSIX)

💖 PREAD(3POSIX) — the POSIX Programmer's Manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to pread(3POSIX), straight out of the POSIX Programmer's Manual ✨ (yes that's the manual name, it's giving official, it's giving standards-body realness 👑)

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

Real talk before we start: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so if you're on Linux, go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior 🐧. And lowkey? The interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. It's giving "your mileage may vary", fr fr 💀

✨ NAME ✨

pread — read from a file 📖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <unistd.h>

ssize_t pread(int fildes, void *buf, size_t nbyte, off_t offset);

no cap, that's the whole signature. four args, one vibe 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Refer to read().

that's it. that's the description. the standard said "go read the other one" and honestly? iconic behavior. main character energy of not repeating yourself 🌈

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

okay so the legal girlies need their moment, and we respect them 🫶

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.

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Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format 🙈 (conversion is a messy business, we don't blame anyone). To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

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