pass the command to sh -c

diff --git a/Lib/popen2.py b/Lib/popen2.py
index d195fef8a44d00b619e079547fc9aa473186c11f..45dcbb9ab3444c2633abd858bd0eadfdb152d11d 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/popen2.py
+++ b/Lib/popen2.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import string
 MAXFD = 100    # Max number of file descriptors (os.getdtablesize()???)
 
 def popen2(cmd):
-       cmd = string.split(cmd)
+       cmd = ['/bin/sh', '-c', cmd]
        p2cread, p2cwrite = os.pipe()
        c2pread, c2pwrite = os.pipe()
        pid = os.fork()