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diff --git a/man2/clone.2 b/man2/clone.2
index 1621f06e20..2312600c8c 100644
--- a/man2/clone.2
+++ b/man2/clone.2
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ If
.B CLONE_PIDFD
is set,
.BR clone ()
-stores a process file descriptor ("pidfd") referring to the child process at
+stores a PID file descriptor referring to the child process at
the location
.I ptid
in the parent's memory.
@@ -553,15 +553,15 @@ The close-on-exec flag is set on this new file descriptor.
.IP
Since the
.I ptid
-argument is used to return the pidfd,
+argument is used to return the PID file descriptor,
.B CLONE_PIDFD
cannot be used with
.B CLONE_PARENT_SETTID.
.IP
It is currently not possible to use this flag together with
.B CLONE_THREAD.
-This means that the process identified by the pidfd will always be a
-thread-group leader.
+This means that the process identified by the PID file descriptor
+will always be a thread-group leader.
.IP
For a while there was a
.B CLONE_DETACHED
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ However, when passed alongside
.BR CLONE_PIDFD ,
an error is returned.
This ensures that this flag can be reused
-for further pidfd features in the future.
+for further PID file descriptor features in the future.
.TP
.BR CLONE_PTRACE " (since Linux 2.2)"
If