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diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/renameat.texi b/doc/posix-functions/renameat.texi
index 52f3921a6..e95f9feb4 100644
--- a/doc/posix-functions/renameat.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/renameat.texi
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 @section @code{renameat}
 @findex renameat
 
-POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/renameat.html}
+POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/renameat.html}
 
 Gnulib module: renameat
 
@@ -11,16 +11,21 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
 @item
 This function does not reject trailing slashes on non-directories on
 some platforms, as in @code{renameat(fd,"file",fd,"new/")}:
-Solaris 10.
+Solaris 11 2010-11.
 @item
 This function ignores trailing slashes on symlinks on some platforms,
 such that @code{renameat(fd,"link/",fd,"new")} corrupts @file{link}:
 Solaris 9.
 @item
+This function is declared in @code{<unistd.h>} instead of @code{<stdio.h>}
+on some platforms:
+Solaris 11 2010-11.
+@item
 This function is missing on some platforms:
-glibc 2.3.6, MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX
-5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 8, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw,
+glibc 2.3.6, MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8,
+AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 8, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw,
 Interix 3.5, BeOS.
+But the replacement function is not safe to be used in libraries and is not multithread-safe.
 @end itemize
 
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@@ -34,6 +39,11 @@ is counter-intuitive, so on some systems, @code{renameat} fails with
 @code{ENOTDIR} if either argument is a symlink with a trailing slash:
 glibc, OpenBSD, Cygwin 1.7.
 @item
+After renaming a non-empty directory over an existing empty directory,
+the old directory name is still visible through the @code{stat} function
+for 30 seconds after the rename, on NFS file systems, on some platforms:
+Linux 2.6.18.
+@item
 This function will not rename a source that is currently opened
 by any process:
 mingw.