[issue8972] subprocess.list2cmdline doesn't quote the & character

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at twistedmatrix.com> added the comment:

> That remark is not relevant, because the actual problem is different.

Maybe you can expand the test case to demonstrate the actual problem?  The tests in the latest patch are for list2cmdline directly.  But you can't observe the problem a bug in list2cmdline causes until you actually try to launch a child process.  So perhaps the test should do that?

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