diff --git a/man7/inotify.7 b/man7/inotify.7
index 07c5a1ba3..266b797bd 100644
--- a/man7/inotify.7
+++ b/man7/inotify.7
@@ -617,6 +617,19 @@ way for a process that is monitoring events via inotify
 to distinguish events that it triggers
 itself from those that are triggered by other processes.
 
+Inotify reports only events that a user-space program triggers through
+the filesystem API.
+As a result, it does not catch remote events that occur
+on network filesystems.
+(Applications must fall back to polling the filesystem
+to catch such events.)
+Furthermore, various pseudo-filesystems such as 
+.IR /proc ,
+.IR /sys ,
+and
+.IR /dev/pts
+are not monitorable with inotify.
+
 The inotify API identifies affected files by filename.
 However, by the time an application processes an inotify event,
 the filename may already have been deleted or renamed.