diff --git a/man7/socket.7 b/man7/socket.7
index d99d12ca5..f0d53a81e 100644
--- a/man7/socket.7
+++ b/man7/socket.7
@@ -696,27 +696,9 @@ recv(fd, buf, 2, MSG_PEEK);  // Peeks "ee"; offset set to 8
 .in
 .TP
 .B SO_PEERCRED
-Return the credentials of the foreign process connected to this socket.
-This is possible only for connected
-.B AF_UNIX
-stream sockets and
-.B AF_UNIX
-stream and datagram socket pairs created using
-.BR socketpair (2);
-see
+Return the credentials of the peer process connected to this socket.
+For further details, see
 .BR unix (7).
-The returned credentials are those that were in effect at the time
-of the call to
-.BR connect (2)
-or
-.BR socketpair (2).
-The argument is a
-.I ucred
-structure; define the
-.B _GNU_SOURCE
-feature test macro to obtain the definition of that structure from
-.IR <sys/socket.h> .
-This socket option is read-only.
 .TP
 .B SO_PRIORITY
 Set the protocol-defined priority for all packets to be sent on
diff --git a/man7/unix.7 b/man7/unix.7
index 2eb56e199..742b6bac1 100644
--- a/man7/unix.7
+++ b/man7/unix.7
@@ -302,6 +302,27 @@ in Linux 4.2.
 .BR SO_PEEK_OFF
 See
 .BR socket (7).
+.TP
+.B SO_PEERCRED
+Return the credentials of the foreign process connected to this socket.
+This is possible only for connected
+.B AF_UNIX
+stream sockets and
+.B AF_UNIX
+stream and datagram socket pairs created using
+.BR socketpair (2).
+The returned credentials are those that were in effect at the time
+of the call to
+.BR connect (2)
+or
+.BR socketpair (2).
+The argument is a
+.I ucred
+structure; define the
+.B _GNU_SOURCE
+feature test macro to obtain the definition of that structure from
+.IR <sys/socket.h> .
+This socket option is read-only.
 .\"
 .SS Autobind feature
 If a