#16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to...

#16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to /usr/bin/file. Fix original patch

Lib/platform.py

@@ -997,8 +997,8 @@ def _syscmd_file(target,default=''):
         return default
     target = _follow_symlinks(target)
     try:
-        proc = subprocess.Popen(['file', '-b', '--', target],
-                stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=dev_null)
+        proc = subprocess.Popen(['file', target],
+                stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
     except (AttributeError,os.error):
         return default
     output = proc.communicate()[0].decode("latin-1")