diff --git a/man3/scandir.3 b/man3/scandir.3
index 745653d18..5e3d1674d 100644
--- a/man3/scandir.3
+++ b/man3/scandir.3
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 .\" Modified Sun Sep 24 20:15:46 2000 by aeb, following Petter Reinholdtsen.
 .\" Modified 2001-12-26 by aeb, following Joey. Added versionsort.
 .\"
-.TH SCANDIR 3  2012-04-26 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH SCANDIR 3  2013-04-19 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 scandir, alphasort, versionsort \- scan a directory for matching entries
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -93,7 +93,10 @@ on the strings \fI(*a)\->d_name\fP and \fI(*b)\->d_name\fP.
 The
 .BR scandir ()
 function returns the number of directory entries
-selected or \-1 if an error occurs.
+selected.
+On error, \-1 is returned, with
+.I errno
+set to indicate the cause of the error.
 .PP
 The
 .BR alphasort ()