diff --git a/man2/recv.2 b/man2/recv.2
index eededb2f8..6be8eab91 100644
--- a/man2/recv.2
+++ b/man2/recv.2
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ received from (see
 .PP
 If no messages are available at the socket, the receive calls wait for a
 message to arrive, unless the socket is nonblocking (see
-.BR fcntl (2))
+.BR fcntl (2)),
 in which case the value \-1 is returned and the external variable
 .I errno
 set to
@@ -122,6 +122,15 @@ call is formed by
 .IR OR 'ing
 one or more of the following values:
 .TP
+.B MSG_DONTWAIT
+Enables non-blocking operation; if the operation would block,
+.B EAGAIN
+is returned (this can also be enabled using the
+.B O_NONBLOCK
+with the
+.B F_SETFL
+.BR fcntl (2)).
+.TP
 .B MSG_ERRQUEUE
 This flag
 specifies that queued errors should be received from the socket error queue.
@@ -334,15 +343,6 @@ is returned to indicate that expedited or out-of-band data were received.
 .B MSG_ERRQUEUE
 indicates that no data was received but an extended error from the socket
 error queue.
-.TP
-.B MSG_DONTWAIT
-Enables non-blocking operation; if the operation would block,
-.B EAGAIN
-is returned (this can also be enabled using the
-.B O_NONBLOCK
-with the
-.B F_SETFL
-.BR fcntl (2)).
 .SH "RETURN VALUE"
 These calls return the number of bytes received, or \-1
 if an error occurred. The return value will be 0 when the