Ok I can see that being slightly misleading. What it means is things like
open/close/dup2
> the new table. From this it would appear that even though the
> file descriptor table is different, the child process is still
> sharing the specific fd. This means that if the child does
> an lseek() on a file, f_pos will change in both the child and the
> parent.
That is correct, and also posixly correct. So the documentation is misleading
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