Clarify that the interruptable popen fixes aren't used under Win9x.

0cf4181a · Mark Hammond · 29205785 · 0cf4181a
Commit 0cf4181a authored Aug 10, 2002 by Mark Hammond
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@@ -63,9 +63,10 @@ Core and builtins
  other platforms.  KeyboardInterrupt can now reliably be caught,
  and Ctrl+C at an interative prompt no longer terminates the
  process under NT/2k/XP (it never did under Win9x).  Ctrl+C will
-  interrupt time.sleep() in the main thread, and any child processes
-  created via the popen family are also interrupted (as generally
-  happens on for Linux/Unix). [SF bugs 231273, 439992 and 581232]
+  interrupt time.sleep() in the main thread, and any child processes 
+  created via the popen family (on win2k; we can't make win9x work 
+  reliably) are also interrupted (as generally happens on for Linux/Unix.)
+  [SF bugs 231273, 439992 and 581232]

 - Slices and repetitions of buffer objects now consistently return
  a string.  Formerly, strings would be returned most of the time,