From 658a638b6fe89aef5c8825410cbf3a7b0d08db80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xavier de Gaye <xdegaye@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:32:21 +0100
Subject: Issue #16255: subrocess.Popen uses /system/bin/sh on Android as the
 shell, instead of /bin/sh.

---
 Lib/subprocess.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'Lib/subprocess.py')

diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index c40f0179ee..809e59f5eb 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -1204,7 +1204,10 @@ class Popen(object):
                 args = list(args)
 
             if shell:
-                args = ["/bin/sh", "-c"] + args
+                # On Android the default shell is at '/system/bin/sh'.
+                unix_shell = ('/system/bin/sh' if
+                          hasattr(sys, 'getandroidapilevel') else '/bin/sh')
+                args = [unix_shell, "-c"] + args
                 if executable:
                     args[0] = executable
 
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