diff --git a/man7/sched.7 b/man7/sched.7
index 70aae11fb..f74ad1fe7 100644
--- a/man7/sched.7
+++ b/man7/sched.7
@@ -542,8 +542,8 @@ A nonblocking infinite loop in a thread scheduled under the
 .BR SCHED_RR ,
 or
 .BR SCHED_DEADLINE
-policy will block all threads with lower
-priority forever.
+policy can potentially block all other threads from accessing
+the CPU forever.
 Prior to Linux 2.6.25, the only way of preventing a runaway real-time
 process from freezing the system was to run (at the console)
 a shell scheduled under a higher static priority than the tested application.