diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index 2a2597912f..5e6842f9d6 100644
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ option('debug-extra', type : 'array', choices : ['hashmap', 'mmap-cache', 'sipha
 option('memory-accounting-default', type : 'boolean',
        description : 'enable MemoryAccounting= by default')
 option('bump-proc-sys-fs-file-max', type : 'boolean',
-       description : 'bump /proc/sys/fs/file-max to ULONG_MAX')
+       description : 'bump /proc/sys/fs/file-max to LONG_MAX')
 option('bump-proc-sys-fs-nr-open', type : 'boolean',
        description : 'bump /proc/sys/fs/nr_open to INT_MAX')
 option('valgrind', type : 'boolean', value : false,