From e92dfbfec8db930c5960492c3d9470f3415e27a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ned Deily <nad@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 18:02:21 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Issue #17046: Fix test_subprocess test_executable_without_cwd
 broken test case.

---
 Lib/test/test_subprocess.py | 3 ++-
 Misc/NEWS                   | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
index 4b904710931..0aa4d21e316 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_subprocess.py
@@ -382,7 +382,8 @@ class ProcessTestCase(BaseTestCase):
     def test_executable_without_cwd(self):
         # For a normal installation, it should work without 'cwd'
         # argument.  For test runs in the build directory, see #7774.
-        self._assert_cwd('', "somethingyoudonthave", executable=sys.executable)
+        self._assert_cwd(os.getcwd(), "somethingyoudonthave",
+                         executable=sys.executable)
 
     def test_stdin_pipe(self):
         # stdin redirection
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f0cbca20e7b..98357a4411b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -230,6 +230,8 @@ IDLE
 Tests
 -----
 
+- Issue #17046: Fix broken test_executable_without_cwd in test_subprocess.
+
 - Issue #15415: Add new temp_dir() and change_cwd() context managers to
   test.support, and refactor temp_cwd() to use them.  Patch by Chris Jerdonek.