[issue12326] Linux 3: code should avoid using sys.platform == 'linux2'

[Matthias Klose]

Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org> added the comment:

> The build time Linux kernel has no effect on Python's build procedure
> whatsoever. Python does not use the kernel at all for building; it
> only uses the C library headers, and the kernel headers that happen
> to be incorporated into the version of the C library installed. That
> affects what features get selected during build time.

would be very nice, but unfortunately this is not true; the multiprocessing behavior depends on configure checks testing the running kernel.

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