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  r66809 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-10-06 10:57:03 +0900 | 1 line

  Added the test for issue3762.
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  r66810 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-10-06 11:41:59 +0900 | 1 line

  More strict test. Consider the case sys.executable itself is symlink.
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  r66835 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-10-08 03:10:47 +0900 | 1 line

  more intensive test on dbm.
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  r66862 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-10-09 19:00:30 +0900 | 3 lines

  On windows, os.chdir given unicode was not working if GetCurrentDirectoryW
  returned a path longer than MAX_PATH. (But It's doubtful this code path is
  really executed because I cannot move to such directory on win2k)
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  r66863 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2008-10-09 19:11:21 +0900 | 1 line

  r66862 contained memory leak.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_platform.py b/Lib/test/test_platform.py
index 265c527..2fa1309 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_platform.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_platform.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import sys
 import os
 import unittest
 import platform
+import subprocess
 
 from test import test_support
 
@@ -9,6 +10,21 @@ class PlatformTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_architecture(self):
         res = platform.architecture()
 
+    if hasattr(os, "symlink"):
+        def test_architecture_via_symlink(self): # issue3762
+            def get(python):
+                cmd = [python, '-c',
+                    'import platform; print platform.architecture()']
+                p = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+                return p.communicate()
+            real = os.path.realpath(sys.executable)
+            link = os.path.abspath(test_support.TESTFN)
+            os.symlink(real, link)
+            try:
+                self.assertEqual(get(real), get(link))
+            finally:
+                os.remove(link)
+
     def test_machine(self):
         res = platform.machine()