From 1138ff8651917e808903769ed7f76ee86fdd8b21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karl Chen <quarl@quarl.org>
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 21:40:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] *** empty log message ***

svn path=/trunk/boinc/; revision=1470
---
 sched/start | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sched/start b/sched/start
index 59f06fa2f8..3852022f30 100755
--- a/sched/start
+++ b/sched/start
@@ -226,14 +226,23 @@ def lock_file(filename):
     except IOError:
         return -1
 
+def contains_shell_characters(command):
+    return ('"' in command or "'" in command or
+            '\\' in command or '|' in command or
+            '>' in command)
+
 def exec_command_string(command):
-    args = command.split()
+    args = command.strip().split()
     # set default path for program to <bin_dir>:
     args[0] = os.path.realpath(os.path.join( bin_dir, args[0] ))
     os.chdir(log_dir)
     try:
-        os.execv( args[0], args )
+        if contains_shell_characters(command):
+            os.execl('/bin/sh', 'sh', '-c', ' '.join(args))
+        else:
+            os.execv( args[0], args )
         # on success we don't reach here
+        print >>sys.stderr, "Couldn't exec '%s'"%command
     except OSError, e:
         print >>sys.stderr, "Couldn't execute '%s':" %command, e
     os._exit(1)