diff --git a/src/test/run-fail/spawnfail.rs b/src/test/run-fail/spawnfail.rs
index 7ce873a33270..3a72df1db925 100644
--- a/src/test/run-fail/spawnfail.rs
+++ b/src/test/run-fail/spawnfail.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-// Currently failure doesn't propagate correctly to owning tasks so xfailed
 // error-pattern:explicit
 use std;
 import std::task;