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diff --git a/dbus/dbus-sysdeps.c b/dbus/dbus-sysdeps.c
index 7da367a6..d09f33e6 100644
--- a/dbus/dbus-sysdeps.c
+++ b/dbus/dbus-sysdeps.c
@@ -75,8 +75,10 @@ _dbus_abort (void)
* Wrapper for setenv(). If the value is #NULL, unsets
* the environment variable.
*
- * @todo 1.0 if someone can verify it's safe, we could avoid the
- * memleak when doing an unset.
+ * There is an unfixable memleak in that it is unsafe to
+ * free memory malloced for use with setenv. This is because
+ * we can not rely on internal implementation details of
+ * the underlying libc library.
*
* @param varname name of environment variable
* @param value value of environment variable