diff --git a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/nio/channels/ScatteringByteChannel.java b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/nio/channels/ScatteringByteChannel.java
index fd48d4baa6e..27fce3c1e09 100644
--- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/nio/channels/ScatteringByteChannel.java
+++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/nio/channels/ScatteringByteChannel.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2000, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2000, 2024, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ public interface ScatteringByteChannel
      *
      * <p> An invocation of this method attempts to read up to <i>r</i> bytes
      * from this channel, where <i>r</i> is the total number of bytes remaining
-     * the specified subsequence of the given buffer array, that is,
+     * in the specified subsequence of the given buffer array, that is,
      *
      * {@snippet lang=java :
      *     dsts[offset].remaining()