Charles-François Natali added the comment:
Marking #10496 as a dependency (since it could prevent Python from running
with low level privileges).
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dependencies: +Python startup should not require passwd entry
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Charles-François Natali added the comment:
The latest version of the patch passes on Linux, OpenIndiana and Windows.
Note that I did apply the select()-hack on all platforms (not only Windows),
because if I understood #427345 correctly, it's really there to bypass a
non-standard IE behavior
Changes by Charles-François Natali cf.nat...@gmail.com:
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file29219/cgi_subprocess-1.diff
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Changes by Charles-François Natali cf.nat...@gmail.com:
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New submission from Charles-François Natali:
On Unix, CGIHTTPRequestHandler.run_cgi() uses the following code to run a CGI
script:
pid = os.fork()
[...]
# Child
try:
try:
os.setuid(nobody)
