diff --git a/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py b/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py
index 510e4b5aba..8e2facf92a 100644
--- a/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py
+++ b/Lib/multiprocessing/connection.py
@@ -73,11 +73,6 @@ def arbitrary_address(family):
     if family == 'AF_INET':
         return ('localhost', 0)
     elif family == 'AF_UNIX':
-        # Prefer abstract sockets if possible to avoid problems with the address
-        # size.  When coding portable applications, some implementations have
-        # sun_path as short as 92 bytes in the sockaddr_un struct.
-        if util.abstract_sockets_supported:
-            return f"\0listener-{os.getpid()}-{next(_mmap_counter)}"
         return tempfile.mktemp(prefix='listener-', dir=util.get_temp_dir())
     elif family == 'AF_PIPE':
         return tempfile.mktemp(prefix=r'\\.\pipe\pyc-%d-%d-' %
