diff --git a/man2/select.2 b/man2/select.2
index b778c48cc..aee25c52c 100644
--- a/man2/select.2
+++ b/man2/select.2
@@ -70,6 +70,18 @@ Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
     _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
 .fi
 .SH DESCRIPTION
+.BR "WARNING" :
+.BR select ()
+can monitor only file descriptors numbers that are less than
+.BR FD_SETSIZE
+(1024)\(eman unreasonably low limit for many modern applications\(emand
+this limitation will not change.
+All modern applications should instead use
+.BR poll (2)
+or
+.BR epoll (7),
+which do not suffer this limitation.
+.PP
 .BR select ()
 allows a program to monitor multiple file descriptors,
 waiting until one or more of the file descriptors become "ready"
@@ -80,15 +92,6 @@ perform a corresponding I/O operation (e.g.,
 or a sufficiently small
 .BR write (2))
 without blocking.
-.PP
-.BR select ()
-can monitor only file descriptors numbers that are less than
-.BR FD_SETSIZE ;
-.BR poll (2)
-and
-.BR epoll (7)
-do not have this limitation.
-See BUGS.
 .\"
 .SS File descriptor sets
 The principal arguments of