diff --git a/man7/fanotify.7 b/man7/fanotify.7
index 0c417c07e..00e080522 100644
--- a/man7/fanotify.7
+++ b/man7/fanotify.7
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ Thus, the reading application has no way to detect the error.
 The following program demonstrates the usage of the fanotify API.
 It marks the mount point passed as a command-line argument
 and waits for events of type
-.B FAN_PERM_OPEN
+.B FAN_OPEN_PERM
 and
 .BR FAN_CLOSE_WRITE .
 When a permission event occurs, a