Richard Oudkerk added the comment:

> Where did you get that info? MSDN is silent about that.
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/886kc0as(v=vs.90).aspx

Reading the source code for the C runtime included with Visual Studio.

> The problem is not in what I should or should not use. The problem
> that existing scripts that work on Unix and use os.execv() to launch
> interactive scripts, on Windows behave absolutely weird and unusable
> behavior. I previously experienced this with SCons, but couldn't get
> the reason. Now I experience this with basic Android development tools
> and dug down to this. It is clearly a big mess from this side of
> Windows.

As said before (more than once), os.exec*() is useless on Windows: just use 
subprocess.

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resolution:  -> rejected
stage:  -> committed/rejected
status: open -> closed

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