--- a/src/utils/cancelcheck.h
+++ b/src/utils/cancelcheck.h
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
*/
#ifndef _CANCELCHECK_H_INCLUDED_
#define _CANCELCHECK_H_INCLUDED_
-/* @(#$Id: cancelcheck.h,v 1.4 2008-11-18 13:24:43 dockes Exp $ (C) 2005 J.F.Dockes */
+/* @(#$Id: cancelcheck.h,v 1.5 2008-11-18 13:51:09 dockes Exp $ (C) 2005 J.F.Dockes */
/**
@@ -30,10 +30,11 @@
* interaction, if the worker takes too long.
* - The worker task calls checkCancel() at regular intervals, possibly as
* a side-effect of some other progress-reporting call. If cancellation has
- * been requested, this will raise an exception.
- * The worker routine must be exception-clean, and the caller should
- * catch the CancelExcept exception.
- *
+ * been requested, this will raise an exception, to be catched and processed
+ * wherever the worker was invoked.
+ * Of course, the worker side must be exception-clean, but this otherwise avoids
+ * having to set-up code to handle a special cancellation error along
+ * the whole worker call stack.
*/
class CancelExcept {};