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-rw-r--r--src/file_handle_cache.erl6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/file_handle_cache.erl b/src/file_handle_cache.erl
index 7c89b1d36e..2ee12329ad 100644
--- a/src/file_handle_cache.erl
+++ b/src/file_handle_cache.erl
@@ -135,8 +135,10 @@
%% - reopening them when necessary is handled transparently.
%%
%% The server also supports obtain and transfer. obtain/0 blocks until
-%% a file descriptor is available. transfer/1 transfers ownership of a
-%% file descriptor between processes. It is non-blocking.
+%% a file descriptor is available, at which point the requesting
+%% process is considered to 'own' one more descriptor. transfer/1
+%% transfers ownership of a file descriptor between processes. It is
+%% non-blocking.
%%
%% The callers of register_callback/3, obtain/0, and the argument of
%% transfer/1 are monitored, reducing the count of handles in use