-On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin) and on BeOS, @code{select} can only be
-called on descriptors created by the @code{socket} function, not on regular
-file descriptors.
+On BeOS, @code{select} can only be called on descriptors created by the
+@code{socket} function, not on regular file descriptors.
+@item
+On Solaris 2.6 and older, @code{select} applied to a file descriptor opened
+for reading and associated with @code{/dev/null} hangs, waiting for input,
+when instead it should return immediately.