diff --git a/man2/prctl.2 b/man2/prctl.2
index 65bbea012..0ccfe0b42 100644
--- a/man2/prctl.2
+++ b/man2/prctl.2
@@ -407,7 +407,8 @@ For further information, see the kernel source file
 .IR Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt .
 .TP
 .BR PR_GET_SECCOMP " (since Linux 2.6.23)"
-Return the secure computing mode of the calling thread.
+Return (as the function result)
+the secure computing mode of the calling thread.
 If the caller is not in secure computing mode, this operation returns 0;
 if the caller is in strict secure computing mode, then the
 .BR prctl ()