diff --git a/stdlib/@tests/stubtest_allowlists/common.txt b/stdlib/@tests/stubtest_allowlists/common.txt
index 6876e60e4..3b92843fa 100644
--- a/stdlib/@tests/stubtest_allowlists/common.txt
+++ b/stdlib/@tests/stubtest_allowlists/common.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ http.client.HTTPConnection.response_class  # the actual type at runtime is abc.A
 importlib.abc.Loader.exec_module  # See Lib/importlib/_abc.py. Might be defined for backwards compatibility
 importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder.find_spec  # Not defined on the actual class, but expected to exist.
 importlib.abc.PathEntryFinder.find_spec  # Not defined on the actual class, but expected to exist.
-select.poll  # Depends on configuration
 socketserver.BaseServer.fileno  # implemented in derived classes
 socketserver.BaseServer.get_request  # implemented in derived classes
 socketserver.BaseServer.server_bind  # implemented in derived classes
diff --git a/stdlib/@tests/stubtest_allowlists/darwin.txt b/stdlib/@tests/stubtest_allowlists/darwin.txt
index 4654ecb79..e02468b6b 100644
--- a/stdlib/@tests/stubtest_allowlists/darwin.txt
+++ b/stdlib/@tests/stubtest_allowlists/darwin.txt
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ curses.has_key  # stubtest gets confused because this is both a module and a fun
 multiprocessing.popen_spawn_win32  # exists on Darwin but fails to import
 readline.append_history_file  # Only available if compiled with GNU readline, not editline
 select.kqueue.__init__  # default C signature is wrong
+select.poll  # Actually a function; we have a class so it can be used as a type
 
 # Some of these exist on non-windows, but they are useless and this is not intended
 stat.FILE_ATTRIBUTE_[A-Z_]+
diff --git a/stdlib/@tests/stubtest_allowlists/linux.txt b/stdlib/@tests/stubtest_allowlists/linux.txt
index d82c0a7dc..8d7176ce3 100644
--- a/stdlib/@tests/stubtest_allowlists/linux.txt
+++ b/stdlib/@tests/stubtest_allowlists/linux.txt
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ curses.LINES  # Initialized only after initscr call
 curses.has_key  # stubtest gets confused because this is both a module and a function in curses
 fcntl.I_[A-Z0-9_]+  # Platform differences that cannot be captured by the type system
 multiprocessing.popen_spawn_win32  # exists on Linux but fails to import
+select.poll  # Actually a function; we have a class so it can be used as a type
 
 # These seem like they should be available on Linux, but they're not
 # on GitHub Actions runners for some reason.
diff --git a/stdlib/select.pyi b/stdlib/select.pyi
index aad6d951f..42941b9e4 100644
--- a/stdlib/select.pyi
+++ b/stdlib/select.pyi
@@ -22,11 +22,14 @@ if sys.platform != "win32":
     POLLWRBAND: int
     POLLWRNORM: int
 
-class poll:
-    def register(self, fd: FileDescriptorLike, eventmask: int = ...) -> None: ...
-    def modify(self, fd: FileDescriptorLike, eventmask: int) -> None: ...
-    def unregister(self, fd: FileDescriptorLike) -> None: ...
-    def poll(self, timeout: float | None = ...) -> list[tuple[int, int]]: ...
+    # This is actually a function that returns an instance of a class.
+    # The class is not accessible directly, and also calls itself select.poll.
+    class poll:
+        # default value is select.POLLIN | select.POLLPRI | select.POLLOUT
+        def register(self, fd: FileDescriptorLike, eventmask: int = 7, /) -> None: ...
+        def modify(self, fd: FileDescriptorLike, eventmask: int, /) -> None: ...
+        def unregister(self, fd: FileDescriptorLike, /) -> None: ...
+        def poll(self, timeout: float | None = None, /) -> list[tuple[int, int]]: ...
 
 def select(
     rlist: Iterable[Any], wlist: Iterable[Any], xlist: Iterable[Any], timeout: float | None = None, /