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diff --git a/bsd/man/man2/getdirentries.2 b/bsd/man/man2/getdirentries.2
index 7e04d0df594dd2ff9219fc48e1c8eb3dd5603e3d..f465c57901a8f9248743d9ef80f8fe3835f58205 100644 (file)
--- a/bsd/man/man2/getdirentries.2
+++ b/bsd/man/man2/getdirentries.2
@@ -68,7 +68,11 @@ with buffers smaller than this size.
 The data in the buffer is a series of
 .Em dirent
 structures (see
 The data in the buffer is a series of
 .Em dirent
 structures (see

-.Xr dir 5 )
+.Xr dir 5)
+The order of the directory entries vended out via 
+.Fn getdirentries
+is not specified. Some filesystems may return entries in lexicographic sort order
+and others may not. 

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