diff --git a/man2/accept.2 b/man2/accept.2
index 6a9d7e980..bab9a8591 100644
--- a/man2/accept.2
+++ b/man2/accept.2
@@ -217,8 +217,9 @@ and
 .\" Actually EAGAIN on Linux
 The socket is marked nonblocking and no connections are
 present to be accepted.
-POSIX.1-2001 allows either error to be returned for this case,
-and does not require these constants to have the same value,
+POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008
+allow either error to be returned for this case,
+and do not require these constants to have the same value,
 so a portable application should check for both possibilities.
 .TP
 .B EBADF