diff --git a/man7/cgroups.7 b/man7/cgroups.7
index 617c9ac9f..f28c6146a 100644
--- a/man7/cgroups.7
+++ b/man7/cgroups.7
@@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ controllers.
 Each cgroup in the v2 hierarchy contains the following two files:
 .TP
 .IR cgroup.controllers
-This is a list of the controllers that are
+This read-only file exposes a list of the controllers that are
 .I available
 in this cgroup.
 The contents of this file match the contents of the