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diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/write.2 b/lib/libc/sys/write.2
index 75b16f040b4..f5c8460aac5 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/write.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/write.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: write.2,v 1.34 2011/11/05 17:55:49 guenther Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: write.2,v 1.35 2011/11/06 12:07:22 deraadt Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: write.2,v 1.6 1995/02/27 12:39:43 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)write.2 8.5 (Berkeley) 4/2/94
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: November 5 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 6 2011 $
.Dt WRITE 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ performs the same action, but gathers the output data from the
.Fa iovcnt
buffers specified by the members of the
.Fa iov
-array: iov[0], iov[1], ..., iov[iovcnt\|-\|1].
+array: iov[0], iov[1], ..., iov[iovcnt-1].
.Fn pwrite
and
.Fn pwritev
@@ -161,10 +161,6 @@ is not a valid descriptor open for writing.
.It Bq Er EFBIG
An attempt was made to write a file that exceeds the process's
file size limit or the maximum file size.
-.It Bq Er EINVAL
-The pointer associated with
-.Fa d
-was negative.
.It Bq Er ENOSPC
There is no free space remaining on the file system containing the file.
.It Bq Er EDQUOT
@@ -210,7 +206,7 @@ may return the following error:
.It Bq Er EINVAL
.Fa nbytes
was larger than
-.Ev SSIZE_MAX .
+.Dv SSIZE_MAX .
.El
.Pp
.Fn pwrite
@@ -218,6 +214,9 @@ and
.Fn pwritev
may return the following error:
.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+.Fa offset
+was negative.
.It Bq Er ESPIPE
.Fa d
is associated with a pipe, socket, FIFO, or tty.