Re: [PATCH] Add a personality to report 2.6.x version numbers

[Colin Walters]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Details. Examples. Name the f&*cking names already. Shame them publicly.

A notable one is that Python now reports "linux3" from sys.platform();
which in turn can break things that were checking sys.platform() ==
"linux2".

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664564

Seems pretty clear to me though it's a bug in the apps that are using
'==' instead of .startswith().
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