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.TH llseek 3 2026-06-13 "Linux man-pages 6.19"
.SH NAME
llseek \- reposition read/write file offset
.SH LIBRARY
Standard C library
.RI ( libc ,\~ \-lc )
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.BI "[[deprecated]] loff_t llseek(int " fd ", loff_t " offset ", int " whence );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
This is not the function you are interested in.
Look at
.BR _llseek (2)
or
.BR lseek (2).
.SH HISTORY
When users complained about data loss caused by a miscompilation of
.BR e2fsck (8),
glibc 2.1.3 added the link-time warning
.P
.in +4n
"the \`llseek\' function may be dangerous;
use \`lseek64\' instead."
.in
.P
Since glibc 2.28,
.\" glibc commit 5c5c0dd747070db624c8e2c43691cec854f114ef
this function symbol is no longer available to newly linked applications.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR _llseek (2),
.BR lseek (2),
.BR lseek64 (3)