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diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/chmod.2 b/lib/libc/sys/chmod.2
index 9c5c10b9946..7aadd8ecfcd 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/chmod.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/chmod.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: chmod.2,v 1.24 2014/01/11 19:23:39 espie Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: chmod.2,v 1.25 2014/02/13 07:30:39 guenther Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: chmod.2,v 1.7 1995/02/27 12:32:06 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)chmod.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: January 11 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: February 13 2014 $
.Dt CHMOD 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -59,12 +59,10 @@ to
verifies that the process owner (user) either owns the specified file
or is the superuser.
.Pp
-Values for
+The
.Fa mode
-are constructed by bitwise-inclusive
-.Tn OR Ns ing
-permission bit masks from the following list defined in
-.In sys/stat.h :
+argument is the bitwise OR of zero or more of the permission bit masks
+from the following list:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
#define S_IRWXU 0000700 /* RWX mask for owner */
#define S_IRUSR 0000400 /* R for owner */
@@ -135,12 +133,9 @@ If
is also zero, the behavior is identical to a call to
.Fn chmod .
.Pp
-Values for
+The
.Fa flag
-are constructed by bitwise-inclusive
-.Tn OR Ns ing
-flags from the following list defined in
-.In fcntl.h :
+argument is the bitwise OR of zero or more of the following values:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW -offset indent -compact
.It Dv AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW