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gh-84393: Re-enable posix_fadvise and f_allocate on AIX#144784

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gh-84393: Re-enable posix_fadvise and f_allocate on AIX#144784
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@encukou encukou commented Feb 13, 2026

This is #19403 rebased on current main. (It was faster to recreate than to merge.)

This removes an outdated workaround, apparently needed around 2014-2016 for a (now) unsupported platform. (AIX is unsupported by CPython; AIX 6 is EOL at IBM's side.)

cc @edelsohn @ayappanec as the AIX experts.

@encukou encukou merged commit f1cf762 into python:main Feb 19, 2026
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