From 8d857fcb168f54a99402d0c4a2b70e02f81f0117 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 13:01:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] proc.5: Improve description of /proc/PID/mountinfo 'root'
 field

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
---
 man5/proc.5 | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index 85df02a45..580dd3a4c 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -1135,7 +1135,8 @@ for files on filesystem (see
 .BR stat (2)).
 .TP
 (4)
-root: root of the mount within the filesystem.
+root: pathname of the directory in the filesystem
+which forms the root of this mount.
 .TP
 (5)
 mount point: mount point relative to the process's root.