diff --git a/man2/mmap.2 b/man2/mmap.2
index 1ea5f1528..54ac041a1 100644
--- a/man2/mmap.2
+++ b/man2/mmap.2
@@ -612,14 +612,21 @@ fails with the error
 .B EINVAL
 for this case.
 
-POSIX specifies that system shall always zero fill any partial page at the end
-of the object and that system will newer write any modification of object
-beyond its end. On Linux when you write data to such partial page after the end
-of the object the data stays in page cache even after you closed and unmaped
-the file and although the data are newer written to the file itself subsequent
-mappings may see the modified content. In some cases this could be fixed by
-calling msync before the unmap takes place, this however doesn't work on tmpfs
-(for example when using shm ipc interface).
+POSIX specifies that the system shall always
+zero fill any partial page at the end
+of the object and that system will never write any modification of the 
+object beyond its end.
+On Linux, when you write data to such partial page after the end
+of the object, the data stays in the page cache even after the file 
+is closed and unmapped
+and even though the data is never written to the file itself,
+subsequent mappings may see the modified content.
+In some cases, this could be fixed by calling
+.BR msync (2)
+before the unmap takes place;
+however, this doesn't work on tmpfs
+(for example, when using POSIX shared memory interface documented in
+.BR shm_overview (7)).
 .SH EXAMPLE
 .\" FIXME . Add an example here that uses an anonymous shared region for
 .\" IPC between parent and child.