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diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/select.texi b/doc/posix-functions/select.texi
index 34896b9e6..e9a916f2c 100644
--- a/doc/posix-functions/select.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/select.texi
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 @section @code{select}
 @findex select
 
-POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/select.html}
+POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/select.html}
 
 Gnulib module: select
 
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ file descriptors.
 @item
 On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), error codes for @code{accept} are not
 placed in @code{errno}, and @code{WSAGetLastError} must be used instead.
+@item
+This function fails when the @code{nfds} argument is 0 on some platforms:
+Interix 3.5.
 @end itemize
 
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@@ -28,6 +31,10 @@ unmodified.
 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.
+@item
 On Linux, when some file descriptor refers to a regular file, @code{select}
 may fail, setting @code{errno} to @code{EBADF}.
 @end itemize