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diff --git a/pod/perlport.pod b/pod/perlport.pod
index 7f779c955e..ee147e902c 100644
--- a/pod/perlport.pod
+++ b/pod/perlport.pod
@@ -1640,6 +1640,10 @@ Not implemented. (S<Mac OS>, Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>, VOS, VM/ESA)
=item stat
+Platforms that do not have rdev, blksize, or blocks will return these
+as '', so numeric comparison or manipulation of these fields may cause
+'not numeric' warnings.
+
mtime and atime are the same thing, and ctime is creation time instead of
inode change time. (S<Mac OS>)
@@ -1650,6 +1654,9 @@ device and inode are not necessarily reliable. (VMS)
mtime, atime and ctime all return the last modification time. Device and
inode are not necessarily reliable. (S<RISC OS>)
+dev, rdev, blksize, and blocks are not available. inode is not
+meaningful and will differ between stat calls on the same file. (os2)
+
=item symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE
Not implemented. (Win32, VMS, S<RISC OS>)