diff --git a/man3/termios.3 b/man3/termios.3
index 3bf484586..671e7a99b 100644
--- a/man3/termios.3
+++ b/man3/termios.3
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 .\"     Enhanced the discussion of "raw" mode for cfmakeraw().
 .\"     Document CMSPAR.
 .\"
-.TH TERMIOS 3 2010-06-20 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH TERMIOS 3 2011-09-08 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 termios, tcgetattr, tcsetattr, tcsendbreak, tcdrain, tcflush, tcflow,
 cfmakeraw, cfgetospeed, cfgetispeed, cfsetispeed, cfsetospeed, cfsetspeed \-
@@ -619,7 +619,13 @@ is set, and then not passed as input.
 (not in POSIX; not supported under Linux;
 status request: 024, DC4, Ctrl-T).
 .LP
-These symbolic subscript values are all different, except that
+An individual terminal special character can be disabled by setting
+the value of the corresponding
+.I c_cc
+element to
+.BR _POSIX_VDISABLE .
+.LP
+The above symbolic subscript values are all different, except that
 .BR VTIME ,
 .B VMIN
 may have the same value as