diff --git a/man2/accept.2 b/man2/accept.2
index f120cc213..2306de79f 100644
--- a/man2/accept.2
+++ b/man2/accept.2
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ for the accepted socket.
 On error, \-1 is returned, and
 .I errno
 is set appropriately.
-.SH "ERROR HANDLING"
+.SS "Error Handling"
 Linux
 .BR accept ()
 passes already-pending network errors on the new socket
diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2
index e8d67e156..3c2233847 100644
--- a/man2/execve.2
+++ b/man2/execve.2
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ on most other Unix systems doing this will result in an error.
 .\" .BR execve(2)
 .\" that could be exploited for denial of service by a suitably crafted
 .\" ELF binary. There are no known problems with 2.0.34 or 2.2.15.
-.SH HISTORICAL
+.SS Historical
 With Unix V6 the argument list of an
 .BR exec ()
 call was ended by 0,
diff --git a/man2/signal.2 b/man2/signal.2
index 244a54200..45a7afdd5 100644
--- a/man2/signal.2
+++ b/man2/signal.2
@@ -79,41 +79,6 @@ The
 function returns the previous value of the signal handler, or
 .B SIG_ERR
 on error.
-.SH PORTABILITY
-The original Unix
-.BR signal ()
-would reset the handler to SIG_DFL, and System V
-(and the Linux kernel and libc4,5) does the same.
-On the other hand, BSD does not reset the handler, but blocks
-new instances of this signal from occurring during a call of the handler.
-The glibc2 library follows the BSD behaviour.
-
-If one on a libc5 system includes
-.B "<bsd/signal.h>"
-instead of
-.B "<signal.h>"
-then
-.BR signal ()
-is redefined as
-.B __bsd_signal
-and signal has the BSD semantics.
-This is not recommended.
-
-If one on a glibc2 system defines a feature test
-macro such as
-.B _XOPEN_SOURCE
-or uses a separate
-.B sysv_signal
-function, one obtains classical behaviour.
-This is not recommended.
-
-Trying to change the semantics of this call using
-defines and includes is not a good idea.
-It is better to avoid
-.BR signal ()
-altogether, and use
-.BR sigaction (2)
-instead.
 .SH NOTES
 The effects of this call in a multi-threaded process are unspecified.
 .PP
@@ -159,6 +124,41 @@ and, when
 .B _GNU_SOURCE
 is defined, also
 .IR sighandler_t .
+.SS Portability
+The original Unix
+.BR signal ()
+would reset the handler to SIG_DFL, and System V
+(and the Linux kernel and libc4,5) does the same.
+On the other hand, BSD does not reset the handler, but blocks
+new instances of this signal from occurring during a call of the handler.
+The glibc2 library follows the BSD behaviour.
+
+If one on a libc5 system includes
+.B "<bsd/signal.h>"
+instead of
+.B "<signal.h>"
+then
+.BR signal ()
+is redefined as
+.B __bsd_signal
+and signal has the BSD semantics.
+This is not recommended.
+
+If one on a glibc2 system defines a feature test
+macro such as
+.B _XOPEN_SOURCE
+or uses a separate
+.B sysv_signal
+function, one obtains classical behaviour.
+This is not recommended.
+
+Trying to change the semantics of this call using
+defines and includes is not a good idea.
+It is better to avoid
+.BR signal ()
+altogether, and use
+.BR sigaction (2)
+instead.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
diff --git a/man2/times.2 b/man2/times.2
index df0083f87..8e5ff5aee 100644
--- a/man2/times.2
+++ b/man2/times.2
@@ -155,9 +155,10 @@ returns values of type
 that are not measured in clock ticks
 but in
 .BR CLOCKS_PER_SEC .
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
-SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
-.SH "HISTORICAL NOTES"
+.PP
+On older systems the number of clock ticks per second is given
+by the variable HZ.
+.SS "Historical"
 SVr1-3 returns
 .I long
 and the struct members are of type
@@ -168,9 +169,8 @@ V7 used
 for the struct members, because it had no type
 .I time_t
 yet.
-.PP
-On older systems the number of clock ticks per second is given
-by the variable HZ.
+.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR time (1),
 .BR getrusage (2),
diff --git a/man2/ustat.2 b/man2/ustat.2
index 316972ff7..513c13482 100644
--- a/man2/ustat.2
+++ b/man2/ustat.2
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ is deprecated and has only been provided for compatibility.
 All new programs should use
 .BR statfs (2)
 instead.
-.SH "HP-UX NOTES"
+.SS "HP-UX Notes"
 The HP-UX version of the
 .I ustat
 structure has an additional field,
diff --git a/man2/vfork.2 b/man2/vfork.2
index f49ac8905..4cb989445 100644
--- a/man2/vfork.2
+++ b/man2/vfork.2
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ vfork \- create a child process and block parent
 .B #include <unistd.h>
 .sp
 .B pid_t vfork(void);
-.SH "STANDARD DESCRIPTION"
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.SS "Standard Description"
 (From SUSv2 / POSIX draft.)
 The
 .BR vfork ()
@@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ was called, or calls any other function before successfully calling
 or one of the
 .BR exec ()
 family of functions.
-.SH "LINUX DESCRIPTION"
+.SS "Linux Description"
 .BR vfork (),
 just like
 .BR fork (2),
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@ but may call
 Signal handlers are inherited, but not shared.
 Signals to the parent
 arrive after the child releases the parent's memory.
-.SH "HISTORIC DESCRIPTION"
+.SS "Historic Description"
 Under Linux,
 .BR fork (2)
 is implemented using copy-on-write pages, so the only penalty incurred by