Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment:

> IMO, both should be deprecated:
> - they're not cross-platform
Isn’t the purpose of this report to fix that? :)

> - they invoke the shell implicitly, which subprocess promises never to do
One could argue that it’s not implicit if it’s documented.  Nonetheless, I 
agree that they don’t fit well with the subprocess promises.

So, +1 on deprecating and +1 on new, safer helpers.

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