diff --git a/man7/inotify.7 b/man7/inotify.7
index 266b797bd..8078a8f0c 100644
--- a/man7/inotify.7
+++ b/man7/inotify.7
@@ -630,6 +630,12 @@ and
 .IR /dev/pts
 are not monitorable with inotify.
 
+The inotify API does not report file accesses and modifications that
+may occur because of
+.BR mmap (2)
+and
+.BR msync (2).
+
 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.