Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> added the comment:

I definitely don't think we should get into the game of trying to guess which 
flags are supported at runtime and only exposing those. It's not as simple as 
keeping a table of OS versions -- which would be hard enough to get right -- 
but on Linux you can have things like vendor backports of features to old 
versions, or a new kernel that happens to have had a particular feature 
configured out of it. (For example, AFAIK some major cloud providers still use 
kernels that have had IPv6 support removed entirely.)

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