diff --git a/man2/getdents.2 b/man2/getdents.2
index dc14fa4b7..7a86fa8aa 100644
--- a/man2/getdents.2
+++ b/man2/getdents.2
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ into the buffer pointed to by
 .IR dirp .
 The argument
 .I count
-is the size of the memory area.
+is specifies the size of that buffer.
 .PP
 The
 .I linux_dirent
@@ -62,12 +62,14 @@ struct linux_dirent {
     unsigned long  d_ino;     /* Inode number */
     unsigned long  d_off;     /* Offset to next \fIlinux_dirent\fP */
     unsigned short d_reclen;  /* Length of this \fIlinux_dirent\fP */
-    char           d_name []; /* Filename (null-terminated) */
+    char           d_name[];  /* Filename (null-terminated) */
                         /* length is actually (d_reclen \- 2 \-
                            offsetof(struct linux_dirent, d_name) */
-    char           pad;       /* Zero padding byte */
-    char           d_type;    /* File type (only since Linux 2.6.4;
-                                 offset is (d_reclen \- 1)) */
+    /*
+    char           pad;       // Zero padding byte */
+    char           d_type;    // File type (only since Linux 2.6.4;
+                              // offset is (d_reclen \- 1))
+    */
 
 }
 .fi