diff --git a/man2/accept.2 b/man2/accept.2
index 1f9a87260..a4bebd214 100644
--- a/man2/accept.2
+++ b/man2/accept.2
@@ -171,9 +171,11 @@ for reasons why this may be useful.
 On success,
 these system calls return a nonnegative integer that is a file descriptor
 for the accepted socket.
-On error, \-1 is returned, and
+On error, \-1 is returned,
 .I errno
-is set appropriately.
+is set appropriately, and
+.I addrlen
+is left unchanged.
 .SS Error handling
 Linux
 .BR accept ()