Michael Hudson fixes a case where execv() is called (for a test) with

an empty argument list -- another patch he's checking in will make
this illegal (the first argument should always be the program name).

diff --git a/Lib/os.py b/Lib/os.py
index 7f70f30e7227c123a69ff2d4952f033bc75ab2a3..c7a3cc5a57b178a1c82d8eaf41169000ff6b67b5 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/os.py
+++ b/Lib/os.py
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ def _execvpe(file, args, env=None):
     if not _notfound:
         import tempfile
         # Exec a file that is guaranteed not to exist
-        try: execv(tempfile.mktemp(), ())
+        try: execv(tempfile.mktemp(), ('blah',))
         except error, _notfound: pass
     exc, arg = error, _notfound
     for dir in PATH: