diff --git a/man2/mmap.2 b/man2/mmap.2
index 93dce8173..6e68f2aa5 100644
--- a/man2/mmap.2
+++ b/man2/mmap.2
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ or
 or
 .BR _SVID_SOURCE
 in glibc 2.19 and earlier.
-(Requiring
+(Employing
 .BR _GNU_SOURCE
 also suffices,
 and requiring that macro specifically would have been more logical,