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authorŠtěpán Němec <stepnem@smrk.net>2022-10-08 16:05:14 +0200
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2022-10-08 22:39:53 +0200
commitd5b48568e2ff9cac037f5e8ec9800bb2abe592d3 (patch)
treec842e823016b14beba938511bdb28a23d689ac43
parent845b3463e978a2918557ac87b34afa94681c6fc8 (diff)
pivot_root.2: Fix a typo/thinko
(To obtain a prefix of a given pathname, we have to append (suffix) '/..' at its end.) Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@smrk.net> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--man2/pivot_root.22
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man2/pivot_root.2 b/man2/pivot_root.2
index f2df25d12..ecb92c103 100644
--- a/man2/pivot_root.2
+++ b/man2/pivot_root.2
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ must not be on the same mount as the current root.
.IP \-
\fIput_old\fP must be at or underneath \fInew_root\fP;
that is, adding some nonnegative
-number of "\fI/..\fP" prefixes to the pathname pointed to by
+number of "\fI/..\fP" suffixes to the pathname pointed to by
.I put_old
must yield the same directory as \fInew_root\fP.
.IP \-