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Re: Posix call (execve) breaks mercurial?

Date 2012-10-11 18:33 -0500
From Wayne Werner <wayne@waynewerner.com>
Subject Re: Posix call (execve) breaks mercurial?
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Wayne Werner wrote:

> So here's where things got weird. I could call 
> `subprocess.check_output(['hg', 'root'])`, and things worked just fine. But 
> when I added the env parameter, I got the untrusted issues. So if I did:
>
> import os, subprocess
>
> # Works just fine
> subprocess.check_output(['hg', 'root'])
>
> # Gives untrusted issues
> subprocess.check_output(['hg', 'root'], env=os.environ)

So... curiouser and curiouser - it looks like it's not *actually* execve's 
fault after all. I just compiled the code from the man page, tweaked it to 
run 'hg root', and passed it a new environment. No problems. Well, then I 
manually called the posix one from Python and thing worked fine. *Then* I 
actually tried the above code, and *it* worked fine.

However I *still* get problems with the post-review code. So it looks like 
when I get back to work on Monday I'll be looking to see  what the 
difference in environment is there.

-Wayne

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Re: Posix call (execve) breaks mercurial? Wayne Werner <wayne@waynewerner.com> - 2012-10-11 18:33 -0500

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