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diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/fscanf.texi b/doc/posix-functions/fscanf.texi
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--- a/doc/posix-functions/fscanf.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/fscanf.texi
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ mingw, MSVC 9.
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
 @item
+C99 and POSIX.1-2001 and later require end-of-file to be sticky, that
+is, they require this function to act as if it reads end-of-file if
+@code{feof} would return nonzero.  However, on some systems this
+function attempts to read from the underlying file descriptor even if
+the stream's end-of-file indicator is set.  These systems include
+glibc and default Solaris.
+@item
 On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), this function does not set @code{errno}
 upon failure.
 @item