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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
.\" Modified Thu Apr 20 20:43:53 1995 by Jim Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
.\" Modified Fri May 17 10:21:51 1996 by Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
.\"
-.TH fread 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH fread 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
fread, fwrite \- binary stream input/output
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Standard C library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <stdio.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "size_t fread(void " ptr "[restrict ." size " * ." nmemb ],
.BI " size_t " size ", size_t " nmemb ,
.BI " FILE *restrict " stream );
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ bytes long, from the stream pointed to by
.IR stream ,
storing them at the location given by
.IR ptr .
-.PP
+.P
The function
.BR fwrite ()
writes
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ bytes long, to the stream pointed to by
.IR stream ,
obtaining them from the location given by
.IR ptr .
-.PP
+.P
For nonlocking counterparts, see
.BR unlocked_stdio (3).
.SH RETURN VALUE
@@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ This number equals the number of bytes transferred only when
is 1.
If an error occurs, or the end of the file is reached,
the return value is a short item count (or zero).
-.PP
+.P
The file position indicator for the stream is advanced by the number
of bytes successfully read or written.
-.PP
+.P
.BR fread ()
does not distinguish between end-of-file and error, and callers must use
.BR feof (3)
@@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ T{
.BR fwrite ()
T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.TE
-.sp 1
.SH STANDARDS
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
.SH HISTORY
@@ -104,7 +103,7 @@ The program below demonstrates the use of
.BR fread ()
by parsing /bin/sh ELF executable in binary mode and printing its
magic and class:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
$ \fB./a.out\fP