diff --git a/man2/alarm.2 b/man2/alarm.2
index 725288040..6805ae840 100644
--- a/man2/alarm.2
+++ b/man2/alarm.2
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" Modified Sun Jul 21 21:25:26 1996 by Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>
 .\" Modified Wed Nov  6 03:46:05 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
 .\"
-.TH ALARM 2 2013-04-18 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH ALARM 2 2014-02-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 alarm \- set an alarm clock for delivery of a signal
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -64,6 +64,13 @@ and
 .BR setitimer (2)
 share the same timer; calls to one will interfere with use of the
 other.
+
+Alarms created by
+.BR alarm()
+are preserved across
+.BR execve (2)
+not are not inherited by children created via
+.BR fork (2).
 .PP
 .BR sleep (3)
 may be implemented using