From: Štěpán Němec <stepnem@smrk.net>
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2022 14:05:14 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: pivot_root.2: Fix a typo/thinko
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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>
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diff --git a/man2/pivot_root.2 b/man2/pivot_root.2
index f2df25d127..ecb92c103a 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 \-