From: Steve Dower <steve.dower@microsoft.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2016 04:11:56 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Issue #28732: Adds new errors to spawnv emulation for platforms that only have fork... 
X-Git-Tag: v3.6.0b4~49
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eccaa0679dfd8f23473b3370b74be4af1b5fec44;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Issue #28732: Adds new errors to spawnv emulation for platforms that only have fork and execv
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diff --git a/Lib/os.py b/Lib/os.py
index 71ed0885b0ce..a704fb218c3a 100644
--- a/Lib/os.py
+++ b/Lib/os.py
@@ -832,6 +832,10 @@ if _exists("fork") and not _exists("spawnv") and _exists("execv"):
 
     def _spawnvef(mode, file, args, env, func):
         # Internal helper; func is the exec*() function to use
+        if not isinstance(args, (tuple, list)):
+            raise TypeError('argv must be a tuple or a list')
+        if not args[0]:
+            raise ValueError('argv first element cannot be empty')
         pid = fork()
         if not pid:
             # Child