diff --git a/man3/readdir.3 b/man3/readdir.3
index eb0fafaf0..3578a18b2 100644
--- a/man3/readdir.3
+++ b/man3/readdir.3
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 .\"     Rework discussion of non-standard structure fields.
 .\" 2008-09-11, mtk, Document readdir_r().
 .\"
-.TH READDIR 3  2008-12-19 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH READDIR 3  2009-03-30 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 readdir, readdir_r \- read a directory
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -118,6 +118,9 @@ On success,
 returns a pointer to a
 .I dirent
 structure.
+(This structure may be statically allocated; do not attempt to
+.BR free (3)
+it.)
 If the end of the directory stream is reached, NULL is returned and
 .I errno
 is not changed.