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-rw-r--r--include/io/task.h7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/io/task.h b/include/io/task.h
index 42028cb424..c268eb0b82 100644
--- a/include/io/task.h
+++ b/include/io/task.h
@@ -244,9 +244,10 @@ void qio_task_abort(QIOTask *task,
* @task: the task struct
*
* Get the source object associated with the background
- * task. This returns a new reference to the object,
- * which the caller must released with object_unref()
- * when no longer required.
+ * task. The caller does not own a reference on the
+ * returned Object, and so should call object_ref()
+ * if it wants to keep the object pointer outside the
+ * lifetime of the QIOTask object.
*
* Returns: the source object
*/