diff --git a/samples/pidfd/.gitignore b/samples/pidfd/.gitignore
index eea857f..d4cfa31 100644
--- a/samples/pidfd/.gitignore
+++ b/samples/pidfd/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
-pidfd-metadata
+/pidfd-metadata