diff --git a/man2/chown.2 b/man2/chown.2
index c7b2bd6c0..f21c0d5ad 100644
--- a/man2/chown.2
+++ b/man2/chown.2
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 .\"     (bsdgroups versus sysvgroups, and the effect of the parent
 .\"     directory's set-group-ID permission bit).
 .\"
-.TH CHOWN 2 2014-02-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH CHOWN 2 2014-03-19 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 chown, fchown, lchown, fchownat \- change ownership of a file
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -195,6 +195,11 @@ flag).
 In this case,
 .I dirfd
 can refer to any type of file, not just a directory.
+If
+.I dirfd
+is
+.BR AT_FDCWD ,
+the call operates on the current working directory.
 This flag is Linux-specific; define
 .B _GNU_SOURCE
 .\" Before glibc 2.16, defining _ATFILE_SOURCE sufficed