diff --git a/man2/execve.2 b/man2/execve.2
index 435a6b363..4eaf1967e 100644
--- a/man2/execve.2
+++ b/man2/execve.2
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ will be invoked with the following arguments:
 .PP
 where
 .I pathname
-is the absolute pathname of the file specified as the first argument of
+is the pathname of the file specified as the first argument of
 .BR execve (),
 and
 .I arg...