diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2
index c51b705c3..7a7f06fec 100644
--- a/man2/fcntl.2
+++ b/man2/fcntl.2
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 .\"     Note obsolete F_SETOWN behavior with threads.
 .\"     Document F_SETOWN_EX and F_GETOWN_EX
 .\"
-.TH FCNTL 2 2009-10-17 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH FCNTL 2 2010-06-17 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 fcntl \- manipulate file descriptor
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -1159,14 +1159,18 @@ will be \-1, and
 .I errno
 will contain the (positive) process group ID.
 The Linux-specific
-.BR F_SETOWN_EX
-and
 .BR F_GETOWN_EX
-operations avoid this problem.
+operation avoids this problem.
 .\" mtk, Dec 04: some limited testing on alpha and ia64 seems to
 .\" indicate that ANY negative PGID value will cause F_GETOWN
 .\" to misinterpret the return as an error. Some other architectures
 .\" seem to have the same range check as i386.
+Since glibc version 2.11, glibc makes the kernel
+.B F_GETOWN
+problem invisible by implementing 
+.B F_GETOWN
+using
+.BR F_GETOWN_EX .
 
 In Linux 2.4 and earlier, there is bug that can occur
 when an unprivileged process uses