2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libkvm/kvm.3 b/lib/libkvm/kvm.3
index 560f83d8a018..dfa369a70442 100644
--- a/lib/libkvm/kvm.3
+++ b/lib/libkvm/kvm.3
@@ -83,7 +83,9 @@ issue since any code that manipulates processes is inherently
 machine dependent.
 .Pp
 Finally, the Sun kvm error reporting semantics are poorly defined.
-The library can be configured either to print errors to stderr automatically,
+The library can be configured either to print errors to
+.Dv stderr
+automatically,
 or to print no error messages at all.
 In the latter case, the nature of the error cannot be determined.
 To overcome this, the
diff --git a/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3 b/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3
index c0378504f640..86a4cae74a81 100644
--- a/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3
+++ b/lib/libkvm/kvm_open.3
@@ -118,7 +118,9 @@ no errors are reported and the application cannot know the
 specific nature of the failed kvm call.
 If it is not
 .Dv NULL ,
-errors are printed to stderr with
+errors are printed to
+.Dv stderr
+with
 .Fa errstr
 prepended to the message, as in
 .Xr perror 3 .