@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ information about signals, see @ref{Signal Handling}.
File descriptors open in the existing process image remain open in the
new process image, unless they have the @code{FD_CLOEXEC}
(close-on-exec) flag set. The files that remain open inherit all
-attributes of the open file description from the existing process image,
+attributes of the open file descriptors from the existing process image,
including file locks. File descriptors are discussed in @ref{Low-Level I/O}.
Streams, by contrast, cannot survive through @code{exec} functions,