diff --git a/man2/perf_event_open.2 b/man2/perf_event_open.2
index c6fb9e193..ff33ba1aa 100644
--- a/man2/perf_event_open.2
+++ b/man2/perf_event_open.2
@@ -137,8 +137,8 @@ This flag enables the close-on-exec flag for the created
 event file descriptor,
 so that the file descriptor is automatically closed on
 .BR execve (2).
-Setting the close-on-exec flags at creation time rather than later with
-.BR fcntl (2)
+Setting the close-on-exec flags at creation time, rather than later with
+.BR fcntl (2),
 avoids potential race conditions where the calling thread invokes
 .BR perf_event_open ()
 at the same time as another thread calls