diff --git a/man/systemd.scope.xml b/man/systemd.scope.xml
index daf3554db2b..e4de2b0fd0d 100644
--- a/man/systemd.scope.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.scope.xml
@@ -45,6 +45,15 @@
     url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ControlGroupInterface/">New
     Control Group Interfaces</ulink> for an introduction on how to make
     use of scope units from programs.</para>
+
+    <para>Note that unlike service units scope units have no "main" process, all processes in the scope are
+    equivalent. The lifecycle of the scope unit is thus not bound to the lifetime of one specific process but
+    to the existance of any processes in the scope. This also means that the exit status of these processes
+    do not cause the scope unit to enter a failure state. Scope units may still enter a failure state, for
+    example due to resource exhaustion or stop timeouts being reached, but not due to programs inside of them
+    terminating uncleanly. Since processes managed as scope units generally remain children of the original
+    process that forked them off it's also the job of that process to collect their exit statuses and act on
+    them as needed.</para>
   </refsect1>
 
   <refsect1>