diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2
index fbdc3747d..83882a288 100644
--- a/man2/execve.2
+++ b/man2/execve.2
@@ -467,14 +467,13 @@ are used to delimit the arguments.
 
 On Linux,
 .I argv
-and
-.I envp
 can be specified as NULL,
-which has the same effect as specifying these arguments
-as pointers to lists containing a single NULL pointer.
+which has the same effect as specifying this argument
+as a pointer to a list containing a single NULL pointer.
 .B "Do not take advantage of this misfeature!"
 It is non-standard and non-portable:
-on most other Unix systems doing this will result in an error.
+on most other Unix systems doing this will result in an error 
+.RB ( EFAULT ).
 .\" e.g., EFAULT on Solaris 8 and FreeBSD 6.1; but
 .\" HP-UX 11 is like Linux -- mtk, Apr 2007
 .\" FIXME .