diff --git a/man3/fseek.3 b/man3/fseek.3
index 87de4c1da..f46ee821a 100644
--- a/man3/fseek.3
+++ b/man3/fseek.3
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" Converted for Linux, Mon Nov 29 15:22:01 1993, faith@cs.unc.edu
 .\"
-.TH FSEEK 3  1993-11-29 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH FSEEK 3  2014-04-02 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 fgetpos, fseek, fsetpos, ftell, rewind \- reposition a stream
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ was not
 .BR SEEK_END ,
 or
 .BR SEEK_CUR .
+Or: the resulting file offset would be negative.
 .PP
 The functions
 .BR fgetpos (),