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This function is missing on some platforms:
-Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, BeOS.
+Minix 3.1.8, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, BeOS.
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On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, this function may not
work correctly across the entire data range of files larger than 2 GB.