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PREAD(2)                                                                Linux Programmer's Manual                                                               PREAD(2)

NAME
       pread, pwrite - read from or write to a file descriptor at a given offset

SYNOPSIS
       #include <unistd.h>

       ssize_t pread(int fd, void *buf, size_t count, off_t offset);
       ssize_t pwrite(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count, off_t offset);

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       pread(), pwrite():
           _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500
               || /* Since glibc 2.12: */ _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L

DESCRIPTION
       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, pread() returns the number of bytes read (a return of zero indicates end of file) and pwrite() returns the number of bytes written.

       Note that it is not an error for a successful call to transfer fewer bytes than requested (see read(2) and write(2)).

       On error, -1 is returned and 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.  C  library  support
       (including emulation using lseek(2) on older kernels without the system calls) was added in glibc 2.1.

CONFORMING TO
       POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.

NOTES
       The  pread() and pwrite() system calls are especially useful in multithreaded applications.  They allow multiple threads to perform I/O on the same file descrip‐
       tor without being affected by changes to the file offset by other threads.

   C library/kernel differences
       On Linux, the underlying system calls were renamed in kernel 2.6: pread() became pread64(), and pwrite() became pwrite64().  The system call numbers remained the
       same.  The glibc pread() and pwrite() wrapper functions transparently deal with the change.

       On some 32-bit architectures, the calling signature for these system calls differ, for the reasons described in syscall(2).

BUGS
       POSIX  requires  that opening a file with the O_APPEND flag should have no effect on the location at which pwrite() writes data.  However, on Linux, if a file is
       opened with O_APPEND, pwrite() appends data to the end of the file, regardless of the value of offset.

SEE ALSO
       lseek(2), read(2), readv(2), write(2)

Linux                                                                          2021-03-22                                                                       PREAD(2)