- * rotate_position represents the position in the ring-buffer that has to
- * be flushed to disk to complete the ongoing rotation. When that position
- * is reached, this tracefile can be closed and a new one is created in
- * channel_read_only_attributes.path.
+ * rotate_position represents the packet sequence number of the last
+ * packet which belongs to the current trace chunk prior to the rotation.
+ * When that position is reached, this tracefile can be closed and a
+ * new one is created in channel_read_only_attributes.path.