commit 685fffa8f427b3a768b232170752565d58c32112
author Jesus Cea <jcea@jcea.es> Fri Oct 05 05:21:42 2012 +0200
committer Jesus Cea <jcea@jcea.es> Fri Oct 05 05:21:42 2012 +0200
tree 0ed6832fb0417dd52677dc5ad12a6718ed6adc5a
parent adc8211e0084126c1d3190022929c3bffef12ce6

#16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to /usr/bin/file. Fix original patch

Lib/platform.py

diff --git a/Lib/platform.py b/Lib/platform.py
index f2dd520..eedc11c 100755
--- a/Lib/platform.py
+++ b/Lib/platform.py
@@ -997,8 +997,8 @@
         return default
     target = _follow_symlinks(target)
     try:
-        proc = subprocess.Popen(['file', '-b', '--', target],
-                stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=dev_null)
+        proc = subprocess.Popen(['file', target],
+                stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
     except (AttributeError,os.error):
         return default
     output = proc.communicate()[0].decode("latin-1")