From f08c073ded5a7cf5786f9a561e3d9529def81b6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 09:34:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Patch #1669331: clarify shutil.copyfileobj() behavior wrt.
 file position.

---
 Doc/lib/libshutil.tex | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libshutil.tex b/Doc/lib/libshutil.tex
index ab2a0c18b7b..2359dea7994 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libshutil.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libshutil.tex
@@ -34,7 +34,9 @@ file type and creator codes will not be correct.
   is the buffer size. In particular, a negative \var{length} value
   means to copy the data without looping over the source data in
   chunks; by default the data is read in chunks to avoid uncontrolled
-  memory consumption.
+  memory consumption. Note that if the current file position of the
+  \var{fsrc} object is not 0, only the contents from the current file
+  position to the end of the file will be copied.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{copymode}{src, dst}