diff --git a/man2/open.2 b/man2/open.2
index d4d795528..5bd037bcb 100644
--- a/man2/open.2
+++ b/man2/open.2
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ for further details.
 .TP
 .BR O_CLOEXEC " (Since Linux 2.6.23)"
 Enable the close-on-exec flag for the new file descriptor.
-Specifying this flag permits a program to avoid an additional 
+Specifying this flag permits a program to avoid an additional
 .BR fcntl (2)
 .B F_SETFD
 operation to set the
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ One may have to define the
 .B _GNU_SOURCE
 macro to get their definitions.
 .BR O_DIRECT
-is not specified in POSIX; one has to define 
+is not specified in POSIX; one has to define
 .B _GNU_SOURCE
 to get its definition.
 .SH NOTES
diff --git a/man2/sysctl.2 b/man2/sysctl.2
index 2b17aa352..61304047c 100644
--- a/man2/sysctl.2
+++ b/man2/sysctl.2
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Or rather... don't call it:
 use of this system call has long been discouraged,
 and it is so unloved that
 \fBit is likely to disappear in a future kernel version.\fP
-.\" See http://lwn.net/Articles/247243/ 
+.\" See http://lwn.net/Articles/247243/
 Remove it from your programs now; use the
 .I /proc/sys
 interface instead.