diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/fork.2 b/lib/libc/sys/fork.2
index e3822cf39182..f84cd1bab665 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/fork.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/fork.2
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ MIB variable
 .It Bq Er EAGAIN
 The user is not the super user, and
 the soft resource limit corresponding to the resource parameter
-.Dv RLIMIT_NOFILE
+.Dv RLIMIT_NPROC
 would be exceeded (see
 .Xr getrlimit 2 ) .
 .It Bq Er ENOMEM