diff --git a/man/start-stop-daemon.8 b/man/start-stop-daemon.8
index 77684852e..458d64e8c 100644
--- a/man/start-stop-daemon.8
+++ b/man/start-stop-daemon.8
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ Modifies the OOM score adjustment of the daemon.
 Sets the scheduling policy of the daemon. Possible values are other, fifo and rr
 on POSIX systems and, additionally, batch and idle on Linux. If
 .Ar policy 
-is an integer, it is passed directly to sched_setscheduler(2).
+is an integer, it is passed directly to pthread_setschedparam(3).
 .It Fl -scheduler-priority Ar priority
 Sets the priority parameter of the scheduling policy of the daemon. See sched(7) for details.
 .It Fl 1 , -stdout Ar logfile