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On seekable objects, io_seek changes the default file pointer for reads
and writes. (See the C library manual for the interpretation of the
-WHENCE and OFFSET arguments, and why the grammatically incorrect term
-`whence' is used.) It returns the new offset as modified by io_seek.
+WHENCE and OFFSET arguments.) It returns the new offset as modified by
+io_seek.
The io_readable interface returns the amount of data which can be
immediately read. For the special technical meaning of "immediately",