diff --git a/man2/pidfd_open.2 b/man2/pidfd_open.2
index fb025ad49..6eb07a1e4 100644
--- a/man2/pidfd_open.2
+++ b/man2/pidfd_open.2
@@ -135,7 +135,8 @@ the zombie process was not reaped elsewhere in the program
 or similar in another thread).
 .PP
 If any of these conditions does not hold,
-then the child process should instead be created using
+then the child process (along with a PID file descriptor that refers to it)
+should instead be created using
 .BR clone (2)
 with the
 .BR CLONE_PIDFD