[issue8154] os.execlp('true') crashes the interpreter on 2.x

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:

It does not crash on Gentoo, either:

rdmurray at maestro:~>uname -a
Linux maestro 2.6.31-gentoo-r3 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 22 20:13:19 EDT 2009 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

rdmurray at maestro:~/python/release26-maint>./python
Python 2.6.5rc2 (release26-maint:79008, Mar 16 2010, 20:29:24) 
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import os
[36856 refs]
>>> os.execlp('false')
rdmurray at maestro:~/python/release26-maint>echo $?
1

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nosy: +r.david.murray

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