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Author	ronaldoussoren
Recipients	gjb1002, ronaldoussoren, tebeka
Date	2009-11-26.16:02:30
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Message-id	<1259251351.88.0.732513590501.issue4057@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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In most shells $PWD is a magic variable that is maintained by the shell itself. IMHO python has no reason to mess with variables that happen to be defined by some shells. If subprocess were to set $PWD, os.setuid should set $UID, and there may be other magic variables as well.

In most shells $PWD is a magic variable that is maintained by the shell 
itself. 

IMHO python has no reason to mess with variables that happen to be defined 
by some shells. If subprocess were to set $PWD, os.setuid should set $UID, 
and there may be other magic variables as well.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009-11-26 16:02:32	ronaldoussoren	set	recipients: + ronaldoussoren, tebeka, gjb1002
2009-11-26 16:02:31	ronaldoussoren	set	messageid: <1259251351.88.0.732513590501.issue4057@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2009-11-26 16:02:30	ronaldoussoren	link	issue4057 messages
2009-11-26 16:02:30	ronaldoussoren	create