diff --git a/man2/prctl.2 b/man2/prctl.2
index fdbea1baa..d1f8e9195 100644
--- a/man2/prctl.2
+++ b/man2/prctl.2
@@ -1293,7 +1293,7 @@ The timer slack values of
 (PID 1), the ancestor of all processes,
 are 50,000 nanoseconds (50 microseconds).
 The timer slack value is inherited by a child created via
-.BR fork(2),
+.BR fork (2),
 and is preserved across
 .BR execve (2).
 .IP