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Author eryksun
Recipients asvetlov, chris.jerdonek, christian.heimes, eric.araujo, eryksun, ezio.melotti, gregory.p.smith, lyapun, neologix, pitrou, r.david.murray, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2014-08-01.17:51:34
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Defaulting to just "cmd.exe" can execute an arbitrary program named "cmd.exe" in the application directory or current directory. 

When CreateProcess needs to find the shell to execute a batch file (.bat or .cmd), it doesn't search for "cmd.exe" -- at least not in NT 6. If ComSpec isn't set, it defaults to "%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe". If both ComSpec and SystemRoot are unset, executing a batch file via CreateProcess fails with ERROR_DIRECTORY. 

I think Python should use the same default path if it's ignoring ComSpec:

    default_shell = path.join(environ["SystemRoot"], "system32", "cmd.exe")

A KeyError shouldn't be a problem here. CPython won't even run if SystemRoot isn't set to the correct path:

    C:\>set SystemRoot=
    
    C:\>py -3
    Fatal Python error: Failed to initialize Windows random API (CryptoGen)
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2014-08-01 17:51:34eryksunsetrecipients: + eryksun, gregory.p.smith, pitrou, christian.heimes, ezio.melotti, eric.araujo, r.david.murray, asvetlov, chris.jerdonek, neologix, serhiy.storchaka, lyapun
2014-08-01 17:51:34eryksunsetmessageid: <1406915494.57.0.661057749301.issue16353@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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