diff --git a/man2/semop.2 b/man2/semop.2
index b93401844..ad611cf36 100644
--- a/man2/semop.2
+++ b/man2/semop.2
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\" 2005-04-08, mtk, Noted kernel version numbers for semtimedop()
 .\" 2007-07-09, mtk, Added an EXAMPLE code segment.
 .\"
-.TH SEMOP 2 2007-07-26 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH SEMOP 2 2008-10-04 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 semop, semtimedop \- semaphore operations
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -400,9 +400,9 @@ SVr4, POSIX.1-2001.
 .SH NOTES
 The
 .I sem_undo
-structures of a process aren't inherited across a
-.BR fork (2)
-system call, but they are inherited across an
+structures of a process aren't inherited by the child produced by
+.BR fork (2),
+but they are inherited across an
 .BR execve (2)
 system call.
 .PP