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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_spawn.py b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_spawn.py
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+"""Tests for distutils.spawn."""
+import unittest
+import os
+import time
+from test.test_support import captured_stdout, run_unittest
+
+from distutils.spawn import _nt_quote_args
+from distutils.spawn import spawn, find_executable
+from distutils.errors import DistutilsExecError
+from distutils.tests import support
+
+class SpawnTestCase(support.TempdirManager,
+                    support.LoggingSilencer,
+                    unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_nt_quote_args(self):
+
+        for (args, wanted) in ((['with space', 'nospace'],
+                                ['"with space"', 'nospace']),
+                               (['nochange', 'nospace'],
+                                ['nochange', 'nospace'])):
+            res = _nt_quote_args(args)
+            self.assertEqual(res, wanted)
+
+
+    @unittest.skipUnless(os.name in ('nt', 'posix'),
+                         'Runs only under posix or nt')
+    def test_spawn(self):
+        tmpdir = self.mkdtemp()
+
+        # creating something executable
+        # through the shell that returns 1
+        if os.name == 'posix':
+            exe = os.path.join(tmpdir, 'foo.sh')
+            self.write_file(exe, '#!/bin/sh\nexit 1')
+            os.chmod(exe, 0777)
+        else:
+            exe = os.path.join(tmpdir, 'foo.bat')
+            self.write_file(exe, 'exit 1')
+
+        os.chmod(exe, 0777)
+        self.assertRaises(DistutilsExecError, spawn, [exe])
+
+        # now something that works
+        if os.name == 'posix':
+            exe = os.path.join(tmpdir, 'foo.sh')
+            self.write_file(exe, '#!/bin/sh\nexit 0')
+            os.chmod(exe, 0777)
+        else:
+            exe = os.path.join(tmpdir, 'foo.bat')
+            self.write_file(exe, 'exit 0')
+
+        os.chmod(exe, 0777)
+        spawn([exe])  # should work without any error
+
+def test_suite():
+    return unittest.makeSuite(SpawnTestCase)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    run_unittest(test_suite())