From 471b1727447b50718e7a57bbe8f8166befdf41b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 19:00:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Now we implement l_len<0 per POSIX, describe it.

---
 lib/libc/sys/fcntl.2 | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/fcntl.2 b/lib/libc/sys/fcntl.2
index 03a097dae57..d22473b63ef 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/fcntl.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/fcntl.2
@@ -249,6 +249,9 @@ current position, or end of the file, respectively.
 The value of
 .Fa l_len
 is the number of consecutive bytes to be locked.
+If
+.Fa l_len
+is negative, start means end edge of the region.
 The
 .Fa l_pid
 field is only used with
@@ -471,9 +474,7 @@ or
 .Dv F_SETLKW
 and the data to which
 .Fa arg
-points is not valid or
-.Fa l_len
-is negative.
+points is not valid.
 .It Bq Er EMFILE
 The argument
 .Fa cmd