#8213: document behavior of -u on py3k better.
diff --git a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
index 540e4d7..0978770 100644
--- a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
+++ b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
@@ -232,8 +232,9 @@
 
 .. cmdoption:: -u
 
-   Force stdin, stdout and stderr to be totally unbuffered.  On systems where it
-   matters, also put stdin, stdout and stderr in binary mode.
+   Force the binary layer of the stdin, stdout and stderr streams (which is
+   available as their ``buffer`` attribute) to be unbuffered.  The text I/O
+   layer will still be line-buffered.
 
    See also :envvar:`PYTHONUNBUFFERED`.