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diff --git a/share/man/man9/extent.9 b/share/man/man9/extent.9
index 21e5e7e56b9..275f208d7f3 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/extent.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/extent.9
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: extent.9,v 1.12 2008/06/26 05:42:08 ray Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: extent.9,v 1.13 2009/04/10 20:57:04 kettenis Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: extent.9,v 1.15 1999/03/16 00:40:47 garbled Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996, 1998 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: June 26 2008 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 10 2009 $
.Dt EXTENT 9
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -234,12 +234,18 @@ beginning at
.Fa start
with the size
.Fa size .
+If the caller specifies the
+.Dv EX_CONFLICTOK
+flag, the allocation will succeed even if part of the requested region
+has already been allocated.
The caller may specify that it is okay to wait for the indicated
region to be free by setting the flag
.Dv EX_WAITSPACE .
-If
+If neither
.Dv EX_WAITSPACE
-is not set, the allocation will fail if the request can not be
+nor
+.Dv EX_CONFLICTOK
+is set, the allocation will fail if the request can not be
satisfied without sleeping.
.Pp
.Fn extent_free