@item
This function is missing on some platforms:
MacOS X 10.3, OpenBSD 3.8, IRIX 5.3, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
+@item
+On some platforms, this function does not set @code{errno} or the
+stream error indicator on attempts to write to a read-only stream:
+Cygwin 1.7.9.
@end itemize