diff --git a/src/common/rclconfig.cpp b/src/common/rclconfig.cpp
index 69c613ae..7d540426 100644
--- a/src/common/rclconfig.cpp
+++ b/src/common/rclconfig.cpp
@@ -1405,7 +1405,9 @@ string RclConfig::getPidfile() const
     if (nullptr == p) {
         // Problem is, we may have been launched outside the desktop, maybe by cron. Basing
         // everything on XDG_RUNTIME_DIR was a mistake, sometimes resulting in different pidfiles
-        // being used by recollindex instances. So explicitely test for /run/user/$uid
+        // being used by recollindex instances. So explicitely test for /run/user/$uid, still
+        // leaving open the remote possibility that XDG_RUNTIME_DIR would be set to something
+        // else...
         rundir = path_cat("/run/user", lltodecstr(getuid()));
         if (path_isdir(rundir)) {
             p = rundir.c_str();