diff --git a/man2/sigaltstack.2 b/man2/sigaltstack.2
index 2bc5ce434..f1506cfba 100644
--- a/man2/sigaltstack.2
+++ b/man2/sigaltstack.2
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ if (sigaltstack(&ss, NULL) == \-1)
 .SH BUGS
 In the lead up to the development of the Linux 2.4 kernel,
 .\" Linux 2.3.40
-someone got confused and allowed the kernel to accept
+a change was made to allow this system call to accept
 .B SS_ONSTACK
 in
 .IR ss.ss_flags ,