fmemopen.3: Small clarification to the discussion of write errors

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/man3/fmemopen.3 b/man3/fmemopen.3
index 6517bb0d37..4cac0db487 100644
--- a/man3/fmemopen.3
+++ b/man3/fmemopen.3
@@ -134,12 +134,17 @@ only when the file current position advances
 .I size
 bytes past the start of the buffer.
 
+Write operations take place either at the current position
+(for modes other than append), or at the current size of the stream
+(for append modes).
+
 Attempts to write more than
 .I size
 bytes to the buffer result in an error.
-(By default, such errors will be visible only when the
+By default, such errors will be visible
+(by the absence of data) only when the
 .I stdio
-buffer is flushed.)
+buffer is flushed.
 Disabling buffering with the following call
 may be useful to detect errors at the time of an output operation: