diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 541b6142d..eb4bc46c0 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -2951,12 +2951,12 @@ _______EOF
 
 #define G_MODULE_SUFFIX "$g_module_suffix"
 
-/* A GPid is an abstraction for a process "handle". It is *not* an abstraction for
- * a process identifier in general. GPid is used in GLib only for
- * descendant processes spawned with the g_spawn* functions. On POSIX
- * there is no "process handle" concept as such, but on Windows a GPid
- * is a handle to a process, a kind of pointer, not a process
- * identifier.
+/* A GPid is an abstraction for a process "handle". It is *not* an
+ * abstraction for a process identifier in general. GPid is used in
+ * GLib only for descendant processes spawned with the g_spawn*
+ * functions. On POSIX there is no "process handle" concept as such,
+ * but on Windows a GPid is a handle to a process, a kind of pointer,
+ * not a process identifier.
  */
 typedef $g_pid_type GPid;
 
diff --git a/glibconfig.h.win32.in b/glibconfig.h.win32.in
index a5ae00f73..92e89640f 100644
--- a/glibconfig.h.win32.in
+++ b/glibconfig.h.win32.in
@@ -241,12 +241,12 @@ union _GSystemThread
 
 #define G_MODULE_SUFFIX "dll"
 
-/* A GPid is an abstraction for a process "handle". It is *not* an abstraction for
- * a process identifier in general. GPid is used in GLib only for
- * descendant processes spawned with the g_spawn* functions. On POSIX
- * there is no "process handle" concept as such, but on Windows a GPid
- * is a handle to a process, a kind of pointer, not a process
- * identifier.
+/* A GPid is an abstraction for a process "handle". It is *not* an
+ * abstraction for a process identifier in general. GPid is used in
+ * GLib only for descendant processes spawned with the g_spawn*
+ * functions. On POSIX there is no "process handle" concept as such,
+ * but on Windows a GPid is a handle to a process, a kind of pointer,
+ * not a process identifier.
  */
 typedef void * GPid;