commands.getoutput from a cgi?

[Harry George]

We need to run a shell script and get results, all from inside a cgi.
This works standalone (not in the web server).  It works with python
(2.2) from a cgi running from apache on Linux.  It does not work in
python (2.1) on iPlanet on AIX.

The shell command is of the form:
  "echo %s | another_script" % mydata

In the simplest case we are using:
  "echo hello | sort"

The error is:
  ....commands.py", line 55, in getstatusoutput sts = pipe.close()
  IOError: [Errno 10] No child process
 
We've also tried popen, setting the child_stdin to the data in the
echo and then running the script.  Same error.

Anything obvious?

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