diff --git a/man2/getrlimit.2 b/man2/getrlimit.2
index 234059451..3f0793fc3 100644
--- a/man2/getrlimit.2
+++ b/man2/getrlimit.2
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ If the process continues to consume CPU time, it will be sent
 once per second until the hard limit is reached, at which time
 it is sent
 .BR SIGKILL .
-(This latter point describes Linux 2.2 through 2.6 behavior.
+(This latter point describes Linux behavior.
 Implementations vary in how they treat processes which continue to
 consume CPU time after reaching the soft limit.
 Portable applications that need to catch this signal should