diff --git a/man3/fmemopen.3 b/man3/fmemopen.3
index 0b16a5c85..3d983d1e5 100644
--- a/man3/fmemopen.3
+++ b/man3/fmemopen.3
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 .\" and Copyright 2005 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 .\" Distributed under the GPL.
 .\"
-.TH FMEMOPEN 3 2005-12-08 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH FMEMOPEN 3 2008-08-21 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 fmemopen, open_memstream \-  open memory as stream
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -120,16 +120,14 @@ This byte is
 .I not
 included in the size value stored at
 .IR sizeloc .
-.\"
-.\" FIXME . The glibc info doc has text like the following, but it appears
-.\" not to be true: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1996
-.\" The stream's file position can be changed with
-.\" .BR fseek (3)
-.\" or
-.\" .BR fseeko (3).
-.\" Moving the file position past the end
-.\" of the data already written fills the intervening space with
-.\" zeros.
+
+The stream's file position can be changed with
+.BR fseek (3)
+or
+.BR fseeko (3).
+Moving the file position past the end
+of the data already written fills the intervening space with
+zeros.
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 Upon successful completion
 .BR fmemopen ()
@@ -203,6 +201,13 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
     exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
 }
 .fi
+.SH BUGS
+In glibc before version 2.7, seeking past the end of a stream created by
+.BR open_memstream ()
+does not enlarge the buffer; instead the
+.BR fseek ()
+call fails, returning \-1.
+.\" http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1996
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR fopen (3),
 .BR feature_test_macros (7)