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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index b95f8dc50..8eb8ac9da 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -7721,9 +7721,11 @@ standard platforms. @item fullblock @opindex fullblock -Read full blocks from input if possible. read() may return early -if a full block is not available, so retry until data is available -or end of file is reached. This flag can be used only for the iflag option. +Accumulate full blocks from input. The @code{read} system call +may return early if a full block is not available. +When that happens, continue calling @code{read} to fill the remainder +of the block. +This flag can be used only with @code{iflag}. @end table |