diff --git a/man2/getrlimit.2 b/man2/getrlimit.2
index 0247b4be3..ea92a1aad 100644
--- a/man2/getrlimit.2
+++ b/man2/getrlimit.2
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 .\" 2005-07-28, mtk, Added descriptions of RLIMIT_NICE and RLIMIT_RTPRIO
 .\" 2008-05-07, mtk / Peter Zijlstra, Added description of RLIMIT_RTTIME
 .\"
-.TH GETRLIMIT 2 2008-08-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH GETRLIMIT 2 2008-10-06 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 getrlimit, setrlimit \- get/set resource limits
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -278,6 +278,9 @@ Attempts
 etc.)
 to exceed this limit yield the error
 .BR EMFILE .
+(Historically, this limit was named
+.B RLIMIT_OFILE
+on BSD.)
 .TP
 .B RLIMIT_NPROC
 The maximum number of processes (or, more precisely on Linux, threads)
@@ -352,10 +355,6 @@ Upon reaching this limit, a
 signal is generated.
 To handle this signal, a process must employ an alternate signal stack
 .RB ( sigaltstack (2)).
-.PP
-.B RLIMIT_OFILE
-is the BSD name for
-.BR RLIMIT_NOFILE .
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 On success, zero is returned.
 On error, \-1 is returned, and