diff --git a/gio/gunixinputstream.c b/gio/gunixinputstream.c
index 1f8fad23a..c2137280c 100644
--- a/gio/gunixinputstream.c
+++ b/gio/gunixinputstream.c
@@ -50,8 +50,7 @@
  * file descriptor, including asynchronous operations. (If the file
  * descriptor refers to a socket or pipe, this will use poll() to do
  * asynchronous I/O. If it refers to a regular file, it will fall back
- * to doing asynchronous I/O in another thread like
- * #GLocalFileInputStream.)
+ * to doing asynchronous I/O in another thread.)
  *
  * Note that <filename>&lt;gio/gunixinputstream.h&gt;</filename> belongs
  * to the UNIX-specific GIO interfaces, thus you have to use the
diff --git a/gio/gunixoutputstream.c b/gio/gunixoutputstream.c
index 732a90ace..a04e46ee9 100644
--- a/gio/gunixoutputstream.c
+++ b/gio/gunixoutputstream.c
@@ -50,8 +50,7 @@
  * file descriptor, including asynchronous operations. (If the file
  * descriptor refers to a socket or pipe, this will use poll() to do
  * asynchronous I/O. If it refers to a regular file, it will fall back
- * to doing asynchronous I/O in another thread like
- * #GLocalFileOutputStream.)
+ * to doing asynchronous I/O in another thread.)
  *
  * Note that <filename>&lt;gio/gunixoutputstream.h&gt;</filename> belongs
  * to the UNIX-specific GIO interfaces, thus you have to use the