Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

Personally, I'd rather answer that it's not our problem if some systems are not 
POSIX-compliant. Maintainers of such systems can always maintain a patch to 
disable the missing functionality. Adding conditionals everywhere has a 
non-trivial maintenance cost.

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