diff --git a/man2/listen.2 b/man2/listen.2
index 4a2d181bd..33367b202 100644
--- a/man2/listen.2
+++ b/man2/listen.2
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ for more information.
 If the
 .I backlog
 argument is greater than the value in
-.IR /proc/sys/net/somaxconn ,
+.IR /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn ,
 then it is silently truncated to that value;
 the default value in this file is 128.
 In kernels before 2.4.25, this limit was a hard coded value,