diff --git a/man2/setuid.2 b/man2/setuid.2
index c144c27f3..699ac2f53 100644
--- a/man2/setuid.2
+++ b/man2/setuid.2
@@ -75,11 +75,11 @@ is set appropriately.
 .SH ERRORS
 .TP
 .B EAGAIN
-The
 .I uid
-does not match the current uid and
+does not match the real user ID of the caller and this call would
+bring the number of processes belonging to the real user ID
 .I uid
-brings process over its
+over the caller's
 .B RLIMIT_NPROC
 resource limit.
 .TP