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diff --git a/bsd/man/man2/getattrlistbulk.2 b/bsd/man/man2/getattrlistbulk.2
index f67795e96996661173e4c0bfbd0216dfd95b31ac..346402ef7069d698d2afe448b55863bd107f228f 100644 (file)
--- a/bsd/man/man2/getattrlistbulk.2
+++ b/bsd/man/man2/getattrlistbulk.2
@@ -154,7 +154,11 @@ attribute to parse the resulting attribute buffer.
 .
 .Sh RETURN VALUES
 Upon successful completion the numbers of entries successfully read
-is returned. A value of 0 indicates there are no more entries. On error,
+is returned. A value of 0 indicates there are no more entries. Once 0 is returned,
+no further entries are returned even if new entries are added to the directory.
+Directory iteration should be restarted either by repostioning the offset to 0 by
+.Fn lseek
+or by closing the file descriptor and opening the directory again. On error,
 a value of -1 is returned and
 .Va errno
 is set to indicate the error.