New submission from Peter Åstrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
The getpwnam function in the pwd module does not correctly distinguish
between the case when the user does not exist and error
conditions. getpwnam() returns NULL in both cases, the the calling
code needs to check errno to determine
Peter Åstrand added the comment:
>In Python 3.x os.popen is implemented based on subprocess.
Oh, I see.
>I believe it's still a problem with subprocess.
I'm still not convinced of this. Isn't it better to do the quoting
outside subprocess; to let the caller do it? Yo
Peter Åstrand added the comment:
I think there's some confusion in this bug. The report on
http://pastebin.com/fa947767 indicates a problem in test_popen. This is
a test for os.popen() and it does not have anything to do with the
subprocess module. I believe it is test_popen.py that shou
