diff --git a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3 b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3
index 79654118..61babea0 100644
--- a/src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3
+++ b/src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.3
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"	$OpenBSD: getopt.3,v 1.38 2006/03/15 02:50:25 ray Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: getopt.3,v 1.39 2007/04/10 20:35:34 millert Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd December 17, 2002
 .Dt GETOPT 3
@@ -300,22 +300,6 @@ By default, a single dash causes
 to return \-1.
 .El
 .Pp
-Unlike
-.Tn GNU
-.Fn getopt ,
-.Ox
-does not permute the argument vector to allow non-options to be
-interspersed with options on the command line.
-Programs requiring this behavior should use
-.Xr getopt_long 3
-instead.
-Because of this (and unlike
-.Tn GNU ) ,
-the
-.Ox
-.Fn getopt
-supports optional arguments separated by whitespace.
-.Pp
 Historic
 .Bx
 versions of