From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:32:08 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Michael Hudson fixes a case where execv() is called (for a test) with
X-Git-Tag: v2.0b1~1929
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=868b50af1710442a8f92b266ff507259bc09e7de;p=python

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).
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diff --git a/Lib/os.py b/Lib/os.py
index 7f70f30e72..c7a3cc5a57 100644
--- 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: