[issue6689] subprocess doesn't pass arguments correctly on Linux when shell=True

[David Fraser]

David Fraser <davidf at sjsoft.com> added the comment:

Ah, upon closer inspection - the special parameters $0 $1 $2 etc
mentioned in the sh docs refer to parameters within the command string,
so that:
   sh -c 'echo $2 $0 $1' run for "the people"
produces:
   the people run for

So the correct patch would be to leave out the extra parameters and just
have the quoted string...

The question then becomes, is simple " ".join(args) sufficient or should
there be some quoting of them... attaching a patch in the meantime
although that needs to be resolved.

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file14718/subprocess-shell-args-2.6.patch

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