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commit d1fa5a92bc1ce2b8b0a2a9901aa54e6a5ea0093b
Author: PatrickJS <github@gdi2290.com>
Date:   Mon Feb 3 02:11:18 2014 -0800

    update copyright year

Closes gh-1053.
Add default array for util.spawn optional args. Closes gh-1064.