diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2
index fc1d3b31b..ebf26ec21 100644
--- a/man2/fcntl.2
+++ b/man2/fcntl.2
@@ -1225,6 +1225,12 @@ macro to obtain these definitions.)
 .\" .PP
 .\" SVr4 documents additional EIO, ENOLINK and EOVERFLOW error conditions.
 .SH NOTES
+The errors returned by
+.BR dup2 (2)
+are different from those returned by
+.BR F_DUPFD .
+.\"
+.SS File locking
 The original Linux
 .BR fcntl ()
 system call was not designed to handle large file offsets
@@ -1246,11 +1252,6 @@ However, these details can be ignored by applications using glibc, whose
 wrapper function transparently employs the more recent system call
 where it is available.
 
-The errors returned by
-.BR dup2 (2)
-are different from those returned by
-.BR F_DUPFD .
-
 Since kernel 2.0, there is no interaction between the types of lock
 placed by
 .BR flock (2)