diff --git a/src/solaris/classes/sun/nio/fs/UnixPath.java b/src/solaris/classes/sun/nio/fs/UnixPath.java
index aa04538cb20e106ca2740ba6c4aedd585a556a20..1142b4c775b0e8ee890f9fd670f2f0e097f8dbba 100644
--- a/src/solaris/classes/sun/nio/fs/UnixPath.java
+++ b/src/solaris/classes/sun/nio/fs/UnixPath.java
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ class UnixPath
         }
         if (error) {
             throw new InvalidPathException(input,
-                "Malformed input or input contains unmappable chacraters");
+                "Malformed input or input contains unmappable characters");
         }
 
         // trim result to actual length if required