diff --git a/man3/strerror.3 b/man3/strerror.3
index 37fc95d2a..ac0c0deea 100644
--- a/man3/strerror.3
+++ b/man3/strerror.3
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 .\" 2005-12-13, mtk, Substantial rewrite of strerror_r() description
 .\"         Addition of extra material on portability and standards.
 .\"
-.TH STRERROR 3  2009-03-30 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH STRERROR 3  2012-04-22 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 strerror, strerror_r \- return string describing error number
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -133,9 +133,7 @@ or an "Unknown error nnn" message if the error number is unknown.
 The XSI-compliant
 .BR strerror_r ()
 function returns 0 on success;
-on error, \-1 is returned and
-.I errno
-is set to indicate the error.
+on error, a (positive) error number is returned.
 .SH ERRORS
 .TP
 .B EINVAL