#6194: O_SHLOCK/O_EXLOCK are not really more platform independent than lockf().
diff --git a/Doc/library/fcntl.rst b/Doc/library/fcntl.rst
index fa0b3cb..b186d14 100644
--- a/Doc/library/fcntl.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/fcntl.rst
@@ -151,7 +151,6 @@
Module :mod:`os`
If the locking flags :const:`O_SHLOCK` and :const:`O_EXLOCK` are present
- in the :mod:`os` module, the :func:`os.open` function provides a more
- platform-independent alternative to the :func:`lockf` and :func:`flock`
- functions.
+ in the :mod:`os` module (on BSD only), the :func:`os.open` function
+ provides an alternative to the :func:`lockf` and :func:`flock` functions.