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diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.3
index b8093b51e15..c178f0a9d34 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/realpath.3
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: realpath.3,v 1.10 2003/06/02 20:18:38 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: realpath.3,v 1.11 2005/03/29 19:34:14 brad Exp $
.\"
.Dd February 16, 1994
.Dt REALPATH 3
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
.Fd #include <sys/param.h>
.Fd #include <stdlib.h>
.Ft "char *"
-.Fn realpath "const char *pathname" "char resolvedname[MAXPATHLEN]"
+.Fn realpath "const char *pathname" "char resolved[PATH_MAX]"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn realpath
@@ -53,13 +53,13 @@ and
in
.Fa pathname ,
and copies the resulting absolute pathname into the memory referenced by
-.Fa resolvedname .
+.Fa resolved .
The
-.Fa resolvedname
+.Fa resolved
argument
.Em must
refer to a buffer capable of storing at least
-.Dv MAXPATHLEN
+.Dv PATH_MAX
characters.
.Pp
The
@@ -76,14 +76,14 @@ is called.
The
.Fn realpath
function returns
-.Fa resolvedname
+.Fa resolved
on success.
If an error occurs,
.Fn realpath
returns
.Dv NULL ,
and
-.Fa resolvedname
+.Fa resolved
contains the pathname which caused the problem.
.Sh ERRORS
The function
@@ -91,11 +91,7 @@ The function
may fail and set the external variable
.Va errno
for any of the errors specified for the library functions
-.Xr chdir 2 ,
-.Xr close 2 ,
-.Xr fchdir 2 ,
.Xr lstat 2 ,
-.Xr open 2 ,
.Xr readlink 2 ,
and
.Xr getcwd 3 .
@@ -115,6 +111,6 @@ The
version always returns absolute pathnames,
whereas the Solaris implementation will,
under certain circumstances, return a relative
-.Fa resolvedname
+.Fa resolved
when given a relative
.Fa pathname .