Fix for issue 7895. Avoid crashing the interpreter
when calling platform.mac_ver after calling os.fork by
reading from a system configuration file instead of
using OSX APIs.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6cf5a7d..0bc66e8 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -473,6 +473,8 @@
 Library
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+- Issue #7895: platform.mac_ver() no longer crashes after calling os.fork()
+
 - Issue #9323: Fixed a bug in trace.py that resulted in loosing the
   name of the script being traced.  Patch by Eli Bendersky.