[Re] euid/egid eaten up by os.popen

[Donn Cave]

Quoth janeaustine50 at hotmail.com (Jane Austine):
| >I bet you're running Linux.  My suggestion is to try popen2, and
|
| Yes, Red Hat 7.3
|
|> specify the command as a list of arguments.  For example, if you
|> have been writing
|>    fp = os.popen('id')
|> then try
|>    fp, ignore = popen2.popen2(['id'])
|
| Have done that and it didn't work still.
...
| It seems like when popen forks for a new shell, euid is all cleared.

Yes, I think it's the shell, all right.  All I can say is, popen2()
works for me - *IF* I use the list of parameters as above.  It doesn't
help to just use popen2 instead of popen, and give it the same command
string.

	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu