diff --git a/man2/prctl.2 b/man2/prctl.2
index 11b470f28..07708bf06 100644
--- a/man2/prctl.2
+++ b/man2/prctl.2
@@ -646,11 +646,10 @@ memory area for the ELF
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-The second limitation is that such transitions can be done only once
-in a process life time.
-Any further attempts will be rejected.
-This should help system administrators monitor unusual
-symbolic-link transitions over all processes running on a system.
+.\" commit 3fb4afd9a504c2386b8435028d43283216bf588e
+Before Linux 4.9, the
+.BR PR_SET_MM_EXE_FILE
+operation could only be performed once in a process's lifetime.
 .PP
 The following options are available since Linux 3.18.
 .\" commit f606b77f1a9e362451aca8f81d8f36a3a112139e