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> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 17:20:39 +0200
> 
> The real concern about this patch is that it raises quite a bit the
> minimum supported OS version, which is a big no-no, AFAIK.

That could be solved by having this code run only on systems that
support the flag.

So I think the real concern is the other issues that this patch
raises.