[issue6476] MSVCRT's spawnve/spawnvpe are not thread safe

2009-07-13 Thread Jose Fonseca
New submission from Jose Fonseca : MSVCRT's implementation of _spawnve, _spawnvpe, or any version that takes an environ as paramater is not thread-safe, because it stores a temporary environment string into a global variable. _spawnve, _spawnvpe, and friends call a function named _cenvarg

[issue6476] MSVCRT's spawnve/spawnvpe are not thread safe

2009-07-13 Thread Jose Fonseca
Jose Fonseca added the comment: Perhaps. I'm not a scons developer -- just an user -- and I don't know what versions of python far back in time they want support, but it appears it would make sense to use subprocess where available indeed. I already I've filled an issue wit