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Re: spawnl issues with Win 7 access rights

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject Re: spawnl issues with Win 7 access rights
Date 2011-10-27 15:53 -0400
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On 10/27/2011 6:36 AM, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 27/10/2011 11:27, Propad wrote:
>> the suggestion to add the optional second parameter fixed the problem,
>> spawnl now works on the Win 7 computer I'm responsible for (with
>> Python 2.2). So the suggested cause seems to be right.
>
> FWIW, although it's not obvious, the args parameter to spawnl
> is intended to become the sys.args (in Python terms) of the
> newly-spawned process. Which is why the first element is expected
> to be the name of the process. It took me some time to realise
> this myself :)
>
> Anyway, glad we could be of help.

Can we make this fix automatic for Win7 to fix #8036?

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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spawnl issues with Win 7 access rights Propad <npropadovic@googlemail.com> - 2011-10-24 05:43 -0700
  Re: spawnl issues with Win 7 access rights Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2011-10-24 14:18 +0100
    Re: spawnl issues with Win 7 access rights Propad <npropadovic@googlemail.com> - 2011-10-24 06:47 -0700
      Re: spawnl issues with Win 7 access rights Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-10-24 18:16 -0400
  Re: spawnl issues with Win 7 access rights Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2011-10-24 15:18 +0100
  Re: spawnl issues with Win 7 access rights Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-10-24 18:14 -0400
  Re: spawnl issues with Win 7 access rights Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2011-10-24 17:21 -0700
    Re: spawnl issues with Win 7 access rights Propad <npropadovic@googlemail.com> - 2011-10-25 00:01 -0700
      Re: spawnl issues with Win 7 access rights Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2011-10-25 13:19 +0100
      Re: spawnl issues with Win 7 access rights Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-10-25 21:11 -0400
      Re: spawnl issues with Win 7 access rights Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2011-10-26 15:38 +0100
      Re: spawnl issues with Win 7 access rights Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-10-26 15:20 -0400
        Re: spawnl issues with Win 7 access rights Propad <npropadovic@googlemail.com> - 2011-10-27 03:27 -0700
          Re: spawnl issues with Win 7 access rights Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2011-10-27 11:36 +0100
          Re: spawnl issues with Win 7 access rights Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-10-27 15:53 -0400
          Re: spawnl issues with Win 7 access rights Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2011-10-28 09:22 +0100

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