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diff --git a/doc/glibc-functions/copy_file_range.texi b/doc/glibc-functions/copy_file_range.texi
index baac6e1302..f10271c157 100644
--- a/doc/glibc-functions/copy_file_range.texi
+++ b/doc/glibc-functions/copy_file_range.texi
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ This function exists only on Linux and FreeBSD and is therefore
missing on many non-glibc platforms:
glibc 2.26, macOS 11.1, FreeBSD 12.0, NetBSD 9.0, OpenBSD 6.7, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 7.1, HP-UX 11.31, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 11.4, Cygwin 2.9, mingw, MSVC 14, Android 9.0.
But the replacement function is only a stub: It always fails with error ENOSYS.
+
+@item
+This function has many problems on Linux kernel versions before 5.3.
+On these kernel versions, the replacement function always fails with
+error ENOSYS.
@end itemize
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: