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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 77e49211b8..5e785da60f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
2012-02-27 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
+ * manual/llio.texi (fclean): Remove documentation.
+
+2012-02-27 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
+
* manual/Makefile (libc-texi-generated): New variable. Include
version.texi.
(libc.dvi, libc.pdf, libc.info, libc/index.html): Depend on
diff --git a/manual/llio.texi b/manual/llio.texi
index 8154de7416..281d1e02d5 100644
--- a/manual/llio.texi
+++ b/manual/llio.texi
@@ -1000,21 +1000,10 @@ for linked channels; see @ref{Linked Channels}.
@node Cleaning Streams
@subsection Cleaning Streams
-On the GNU system, you can clean up any stream with @code{fclean}:
-
-@comment stdio.h
-@comment GNU
-@deftypefun int fclean (FILE *@var{stream})
-Clean up the stream @var{stream} so that its buffer is empty. If
-@var{stream} is doing output, force it out. If @var{stream} is doing
-input, give the data in the buffer back to the system, arranging to
-reread it.
-@end deftypefun
-
-On other systems, you can use @code{fflush} to clean a stream in most
+You can use @code{fflush} to clean a stream in most
cases.
-You can skip the @code{fclean} or @code{fflush} if you know the stream
+You can skip the @code{fflush} if you know the stream
is already clean. A stream is clean whenever its buffer is empty. For
example, an unbuffered stream is always clean. An input stream that is
at end-of-file is clean. A line-buffered stream is clean when the last
@@ -1028,12 +1017,10 @@ not random access, there is no way to give back the excess data already
read. When an input stream reads from a random-access file,
@code{fflush} does clean the stream, but leaves the file pointer at an
unpredictable place; you must set the file pointer before doing any
-further I/O. On the GNU system, using @code{fclean} avoids both of
-these problems.
+further I/O.
Closing an output-only stream also does @code{fflush}, so this is a
-valid way of cleaning an output stream. On the GNU system, closing an
-input stream does @code{fclean}.
+valid way of cleaning an output stream.
You need not clean a stream before using its descriptor for control
operations such as setting terminal modes; these operations don't affect