diff --git a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
index d458ddb..8251a23 100644
--- a/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
+++ b/Doc/using/cmdline.rst
@@ -95,9 +95,8 @@
       file is not available.
 
    If this option is given, the first element of :data:`sys.argv` will be the
-   full path to the module file (while the module file is being located, the
-   first element will be set to ``"-m"``). As with the :option:`-c` option,
-   the current directory will be added to the start of :data:`sys.path`.
+   full path to the module file. As with the :option:`-c` option, the current
+   directory will be added to the start of :data:`sys.path`.
 
    Many standard library modules contain code that is invoked on their execution
    as a script.  An example is the :mod:`timeit` module::
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0d35399..891a3e9 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #8202: Previous change to ``sys.argv[0]`` handling for -m command line
+  option reverted due to unintended side effects on handling of ``sys.path``.
+  See tracker issue for details.
+
 - Issue #8941: decoding big endian UTF-32 data in UCS-2 builds could crash
   the interpreter with characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane
   (higher than 0x10000).
diff --git a/Modules/main.c b/Modules/main.c
index 7d735a8..a13d166 100644
--- a/Modules/main.c
+++ b/Modules/main.c
@@ -519,10 +519,12 @@
     }
 
     if (module != NULL) {
-        /* Backup _PyOS_optind and force sys.argv[0] = '-m'
-           so that PySys_SetArgv correctly sets sys.path[0] to ''*/
+        /* Backup _PyOS_optind and force sys.argv[0] = '-c'
+           so that PySys_SetArgv correctly sets sys.path[0] to ''
+           rather than looking for a file called "-m". See
+           tracker issue #8202 for details. */
         _PyOS_optind--;
-        argv[_PyOS_optind] = "-m";
+        argv[_PyOS_optind] = "-c";
     }
 
     PySys_SetArgv(argc-_PyOS_optind, argv+_PyOS_optind);