diff --git a/supervisor/_shlex2.py b/supervisor/_shlex2.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7bef0ddc6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/supervisor/_shlex2.py
@@ -0,0 +1,292 @@
+# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
+"""A lexical analyzer class for simple shell-like syntaxes."""
+
+# Module and documentation by Eric S. Raymond, 21 Dec 1998
+# Input stacking and error message cleanup added by ESR, March 2000
+# push_source() and pop_source() made explicit by ESR, January 2001.
+# Posix compliance, split(), string arguments, and
+# iterator interface by Gustavo Niemeyer, April 2003.
+
+import os.path
+import sys
+from collections import deque
+
+try:
+    from cStringIO import StringIO
+except ImportError:
+    from StringIO import StringIO
+
+__all__ = ["shlex", "split"]
+
+class shlex:
+    "A lexical analyzer class for simple shell-like syntaxes."
+    def __init__(self, instream=None, infile=None, posix=False):
+        if isinstance(instream, basestring):
+            instream = StringIO(instream)
+        if instream is not None:
+            self.instream = instream
+            self.infile = infile
+        else:
+            self.instream = sys.stdin
+            self.infile = None
+        self.posix = posix
+        if posix:
+            self.eof = None
+        else:
+            self.eof = ''
+        self.commenters = '#'
+        self.wordchars = ('abcdfeghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
+                          'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789_')
+        if self.posix:
+            self.wordchars += ('��������������������������������'
+                               '������������������������������')
+        self.whitespace = ' \t\r\n'
+        self.whitespace_split = False
+        self.quotes = '\'"'
+        self.escape = '\\'
+        self.escapedquotes = '"'
+        self.state = ' '
+        self.pushback = deque()
+        self.lineno = 1
+        self.debug = 0
+        self.token = ''
+        self.filestack = deque()
+        self.source = None
+        if self.debug:
+            print 'shlex: reading from %s, line %d' \
+                  % (self.instream, self.lineno)
+
+    def push_token(self, tok):
+        "Push a token onto the stack popped by the get_token method"
+        if self.debug >= 1:
+            print "shlex: pushing token " + repr(tok)
+        self.pushback.appendleft(tok)
+
+    def push_source(self, newstream, newfile=None):
+        "Push an input source onto the lexer's input source stack."
+        if isinstance(newstream, basestring):
+            newstream = StringIO(newstream)
+        self.filestack.appendleft((self.infile, self.instream, self.lineno))
+        self.infile = newfile
+        self.instream = newstream
+        self.lineno = 1
+        if self.debug:
+            if newfile is not None:
+                print 'shlex: pushing to file %s' % (self.infile,)
+            else:
+                print 'shlex: pushing to stream %s' % (self.instream,)
+
+    def pop_source(self):
+        "Pop the input source stack."
+        self.instream.close()
+        (self.infile, self.instream, self.lineno) = self.filestack.popleft()
+        if self.debug:
+            print 'shlex: popping to %s, line %d' \
+                  % (self.instream, self.lineno)
+        self.state = ' '
+
+    def get_token(self):
+        "Get a token from the input stream (or from stack if it's nonempty)"
+        if self.pushback:
+            tok = self.pushback.popleft()
+            if self.debug >= 1:
+                print "shlex: popping token " + repr(tok)
+            return tok
+        # No pushback.  Get a token.
+        raw = self.read_token()
+        # Handle inclusions
+        if self.source is not None:
+            while raw == self.source:
+                spec = self.sourcehook(self.read_token())
+                if spec:
+                    (newfile, newstream) = spec
+                    self.push_source(newstream, newfile)
+                raw = self.get_token()
+        # Maybe we got EOF instead?
+        while raw == self.eof:
+            if not self.filestack:
+                return self.eof
+            else:
+                self.pop_source()
+                raw = self.get_token()
+        # Neither inclusion nor EOF
+        if self.debug >= 1:
+            if raw != self.eof:
+                print "shlex: token=" + repr(raw)
+            else:
+                print "shlex: token=EOF"
+        return raw
+
+    def read_token(self):
+        quoted = False
+        escapedstate = ' '
+        while True:
+            nextchar = self.instream.read(1)
+            if nextchar == '\n':
+                self.lineno = self.lineno + 1
+            if self.debug >= 3:
+                print "shlex: in state", repr(self.state), \
+                      "I see character:", repr(nextchar)
+            if self.state is None:
+                self.token = ''        # past end of file
+                break
+            elif self.state == ' ':
+                if not nextchar:
+                    self.state = None  # end of file
+                    break
+                elif nextchar in self.whitespace:
+                    if self.debug >= 2:
+                        print "shlex: I see whitespace in whitespace state"
+                    if self.token or (self.posix and quoted):
+                        break   # emit current token
+                    else:
+                        continue
+                elif nextchar in self.commenters:
+                    self.instream.readline()
+                    self.lineno = self.lineno + 1
+                elif self.posix and nextchar in self.escape:
+                    escapedstate = 'a'
+                    self.state = nextchar
+                elif nextchar in self.wordchars:
+                    self.token = nextchar
+                    self.state = 'a'
+                elif nextchar in self.quotes:
+                    if not self.posix:
+                        self.token = nextchar
+                    self.state = nextchar
+                elif self.whitespace_split:
+                    self.token = nextchar
+                    self.state = 'a'
+                else:
+                    self.token = nextchar
+                    if self.token or (self.posix and quoted):
+                        break   # emit current token
+                    else:
+                        continue
+            elif self.state in self.quotes:
+                quoted = True
+                if not nextchar:      # end of file
+                    if self.debug >= 2:
+                        print "shlex: I see EOF in quotes state"
+                    # XXX what error should be raised here?
+                    raise ValueError, "No closing quotation"
+                if nextchar == self.state:
+                    if not self.posix:
+                        self.token = self.token + nextchar
+                        self.state = ' '
+                        break
+                    else:
+                        self.state = 'a'
+                elif self.posix and nextchar in self.escape and \
+                     self.state in self.escapedquotes:
+                    escapedstate = self.state
+                    self.state = nextchar
+                else:
+                    self.token = self.token + nextchar
+            elif self.state in self.escape:
+                if not nextchar:      # end of file
+                    if self.debug >= 2:
+                        print "shlex: I see EOF in escape state"
+                    # XXX what error should be raised here?
+                    raise ValueError, "No escaped character"
+                # In posix shells, only the quote itself or the escape
+                # character may be escaped within quotes.
+                if escapedstate in self.quotes and \
+                   nextchar != self.state and nextchar != escapedstate:
+                    self.token = self.token + self.state
+                self.token = self.token + nextchar
+                self.state = escapedstate
+            elif self.state == 'a':
+                if not nextchar:
+                    self.state = None   # end of file
+                    break
+                elif nextchar in self.whitespace:
+                    if self.debug >= 2:
+                        print "shlex: I see whitespace in word state"
+                    self.state = ' '
+                    if self.token or (self.posix and quoted):
+                        break   # emit current token
+                    else:
+                        continue
+                elif nextchar in self.commenters:
+                    self.instream.readline()
+                    self.lineno = self.lineno + 1
+                    if self.posix:
+                        self.state = ' '
+                        if self.token or (self.posix and quoted):
+                            break   # emit current token
+                        else:
+                            continue
+                elif self.posix and nextchar in self.quotes:
+                    self.state = nextchar
+                elif self.posix and nextchar in self.escape:
+                    escapedstate = 'a'
+                    self.state = nextchar
+                elif nextchar in self.wordchars or nextchar in self.quotes \
+                    or self.whitespace_split:
+                    self.token = self.token + nextchar
+                else:
+                    self.pushback.appendleft(nextchar)
+                    if self.debug >= 2:
+                        print "shlex: I see punctuation in word state"
+                    self.state = ' '
+                    if self.token or (self.posix and quoted):
+                        break   # emit current token
+                    else:
+                        continue
+        result = self.token
+        self.token = ''
+        if self.posix and not quoted and result == '':
+            result = None
+        if self.debug > 1:
+            if result:
+                print "shlex: raw token=" + repr(result)
+            else:
+                print "shlex: raw token=EOF"
+        return result
+
+    def sourcehook(self, newfile):
+        "Hook called on a filename to be sourced."
+        if newfile[0] == '"':
+            newfile = newfile[1:-1]
+        # This implements cpp-like semantics for relative-path inclusion.
+        if isinstance(self.infile, basestring) and not os.path.isabs(newfile):
+            newfile = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(self.infile), newfile)
+        return (newfile, open(newfile, "r"))
+
+    def error_leader(self, infile=None, lineno=None):
+        "Emit a C-compiler-like, Emacs-friendly error-message leader."
+        if infile is None:
+            infile = self.infile
+        if lineno is None:
+            lineno = self.lineno
+        return "\"%s\", line %d: " % (infile, lineno)
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return self
+
+    def next(self):
+        token = self.get_token()
+        if token == self.eof:
+            raise StopIteration
+        return token
+
+def split(s, comments=False, posix=True):
+    lex = shlex(s, posix=posix)
+    lex.whitespace_split = True
+    if not comments:
+        lex.commenters = ''
+    return list(lex)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    if len(sys.argv) == 1:
+        lexer = shlex()
+    else:
+        file = sys.argv[1]
+        lexer = shlex(open(file), file)
+    while 1:
+        tt = lexer.get_token()
+        if tt:
+            print "Token: " + repr(tt)
+        else:
+            break
diff --git a/supervisor/_shlex3.py b/supervisor/_shlex3.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e87266f8d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/supervisor/_shlex3.py
@@ -0,0 +1,335 @@
+"""A lexical analyzer class for simple shell-like syntaxes."""
+
+# Module and documentation by Eric S. Raymond, 21 Dec 1998
+# Input stacking and error message cleanup added by ESR, March 2000
+# push_source() and pop_source() made explicit by ESR, January 2001.
+# Posix compliance, split(), string arguments, and
+# iterator interface by Gustavo Niemeyer, April 2003.
+# changes to tokenize more like Posix shells by Vinay Sajip, July 2016.
+
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+from collections import deque
+
+from io import StringIO
+
+__all__ = ["shlex", "split", "quote"]
+
+class shlex:
+    "A lexical analyzer class for simple shell-like syntaxes."
+    def __init__(self, instream=None, infile=None, posix=False,
+                 punctuation_chars=False):
+        if isinstance(instream, str):
+            instream = StringIO(instream)
+        if instream is not None:
+            self.instream = instream
+            self.infile = infile
+        else:
+            self.instream = sys.stdin
+            self.infile = None
+        self.posix = posix
+        if posix:
+            self.eof = None
+        else:
+            self.eof = ''
+        self.commenters = '#'
+        self.wordchars = ('abcdfeghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
+                          'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789_')
+        if self.posix:
+            self.wordchars += ('ßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýþÿ'
+                               'ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞ')
+        self.whitespace = ' \t\r\n'
+        self.whitespace_split = False
+        self.quotes = '\'"'
+        self.escape = '\\'
+        self.escapedquotes = '"'
+        self.state = ' '
+        self.pushback = deque()
+        self.lineno = 1
+        self.debug = 0
+        self.token = ''
+        self.filestack = deque()
+        self.source = None
+        if not punctuation_chars:
+            punctuation_chars = ''
+        elif punctuation_chars is True:
+            punctuation_chars = '();<>|&'
+        self.punctuation_chars = punctuation_chars
+        if punctuation_chars:
+            # _pushback_chars is a push back queue used by lookahead logic
+            self._pushback_chars = deque()
+            # these chars added because allowed in file names, args, wildcards
+            self.wordchars += '~-./*?='
+            #remove any punctuation chars from wordchars
+            t = self.wordchars.maketrans(dict.fromkeys(punctuation_chars))
+            self.wordchars = self.wordchars.translate(t)
+
+    def push_token(self, tok):
+        "Push a token onto the stack popped by the get_token method"
+        if self.debug >= 1:
+            print("shlex: pushing token " + repr(tok))
+        self.pushback.appendleft(tok)
+
+    def push_source(self, newstream, newfile=None):
+        "Push an input source onto the lexer's input source stack."
+        if isinstance(newstream, str):
+            newstream = StringIO(newstream)
+        self.filestack.appendleft((self.infile, self.instream, self.lineno))
+        self.infile = newfile
+        self.instream = newstream
+        self.lineno = 1
+        if self.debug:
+            if newfile is not None:
+                print('shlex: pushing to file %s' % (self.infile,))
+            else:
+                print('shlex: pushing to stream %s' % (self.instream,))
+
+    def pop_source(self):
+        "Pop the input source stack."
+        self.instream.close()
+        (self.infile, self.instream, self.lineno) = self.filestack.popleft()
+        if self.debug:
+            print('shlex: popping to %s, line %d' \
+                  % (self.instream, self.lineno))
+        self.state = ' '
+
+    def get_token(self):
+        "Get a token from the input stream (or from stack if it's nonempty)"
+        if self.pushback:
+            tok = self.pushback.popleft()
+            if self.debug >= 1:
+                print("shlex: popping token " + repr(tok))
+            return tok
+        # No pushback.  Get a token.
+        raw = self.read_token()
+        # Handle inclusions
+        if self.source is not None:
+            while raw == self.source:
+                spec = self.sourcehook(self.read_token())
+                if spec:
+                    (newfile, newstream) = spec
+                    self.push_source(newstream, newfile)
+                raw = self.get_token()
+        # Maybe we got EOF instead?
+        while raw == self.eof:
+            if not self.filestack:
+                return self.eof
+            else:
+                self.pop_source()
+                raw = self.get_token()
+        # Neither inclusion nor EOF
+        if self.debug >= 1:
+            if raw != self.eof:
+                print("shlex: token=" + repr(raw))
+            else:
+                print("shlex: token=EOF")
+        return raw
+
+    def read_token(self):
+        quoted = False
+        escapedstate = ' '
+        while True:
+            if self.punctuation_chars and self._pushback_chars:
+                nextchar = self._pushback_chars.pop()
+            else:
+                nextchar = self.instream.read(1)
+            if nextchar == '\n':
+                self.lineno += 1
+            if self.debug >= 3:
+                print("shlex: in state %r I see character: %r" % (self.state,
+                                                                  nextchar))
+            if self.state is None:
+                self.token = ''        # past end of file
+                break
+            elif self.state == ' ':
+                if not nextchar:
+                    self.state = None  # end of file
+                    break
+                elif nextchar in self.whitespace:
+                    if self.debug >= 2:
+                        print("shlex: I see whitespace in whitespace state")
+                    if self.token or (self.posix and quoted):
+                        break   # emit current token
+                    else:
+                        continue
+                elif nextchar in self.commenters:
+                    self.instream.readline()
+                    self.lineno += 1
+                elif self.posix and nextchar in self.escape:
+                    escapedstate = 'a'
+                    self.state = nextchar
+                elif nextchar in self.wordchars:
+                    self.token = nextchar
+                    self.state = 'a'
+                elif nextchar in self.punctuation_chars:
+                    self.token = nextchar
+                    self.state = 'c'
+                elif nextchar in self.quotes:
+                    if not self.posix:
+                        self.token = nextchar
+                    self.state = nextchar
+                elif self.whitespace_split:
+                    self.token = nextchar
+                    self.state = 'a'
+                else:
+                    self.token = nextchar
+                    if self.token or (self.posix and quoted):
+                        break   # emit current token
+                    else:
+                        continue
+            elif self.state in self.quotes:
+                quoted = True
+                if not nextchar:      # end of file
+                    if self.debug >= 2:
+                        print("shlex: I see EOF in quotes state")
+                    # XXX what error should be raised here?
+                    raise ValueError("No closing quotation")
+                if nextchar == self.state:
+                    if not self.posix:
+                        self.token += nextchar
+                        self.state = ' '
+                        break
+                    else:
+                        self.state = 'a'
+                elif (self.posix and nextchar in self.escape and self.state
+                      in self.escapedquotes):
+                    escapedstate = self.state
+                    self.state = nextchar
+                else:
+                    self.token += nextchar
+            elif self.state in self.escape:
+                if not nextchar:      # end of file
+                    if self.debug >= 2:
+                        print("shlex: I see EOF in escape state")
+                    # XXX what error should be raised here?
+                    raise ValueError("No escaped character")
+                # In posix shells, only the quote itself or the escape
+                # character may be escaped within quotes.
+                if (escapedstate in self.quotes and
+                        nextchar != self.state and nextchar != escapedstate):
+                    self.token += self.state
+                self.token += nextchar
+                self.state = escapedstate
+            elif self.state in ('a', 'c'):
+                if not nextchar:
+                    self.state = None   # end of file
+                    break
+                elif nextchar in self.whitespace:
+                    if self.debug >= 2:
+                        print("shlex: I see whitespace in word state")
+                    self.state = ' '
+                    if self.token or (self.posix and quoted):
+                        break   # emit current token
+                    else:
+                        continue
+                elif nextchar in self.commenters:
+                    self.instream.readline()
+                    self.lineno += 1
+                    if self.posix:
+                        self.state = ' '
+                        if self.token or (self.posix and quoted):
+                            break   # emit current token
+                        else:
+                            continue
+                elif self.posix and nextchar in self.quotes:
+                    self.state = nextchar
+                elif self.posix and nextchar in self.escape:
+                    escapedstate = 'a'
+                    self.state = nextchar
+                elif self.state == 'c':
+                    if nextchar in self.punctuation_chars:
+                        self.token += nextchar
+                    else:
+                        if nextchar not in self.whitespace:
+                            self._pushback_chars.append(nextchar)
+                        self.state = ' '
+                        break
+                elif (nextchar in self.wordchars or nextchar in self.quotes
+                      or self.whitespace_split):
+                    self.token += nextchar
+                else:
+                    if self.punctuation_chars:
+                        self._pushback_chars.append(nextchar)
+                    else:
+                        self.pushback.appendleft(nextchar)
+                    if self.debug >= 2:
+                        print("shlex: I see punctuation in word state")
+                    self.state = ' '
+                    if self.token or (self.posix and quoted):
+                        break   # emit current token
+                    else:
+                        continue
+        result = self.token
+        self.token = ''
+        if self.posix and not quoted and result == '':
+            result = None
+        if self.debug > 1:
+            if result:
+                print("shlex: raw token=" + repr(result))
+            else:
+                print("shlex: raw token=EOF")
+        return result
+
+    def sourcehook(self, newfile):
+        "Hook called on a filename to be sourced."
+        if newfile[0] == '"':
+            newfile = newfile[1:-1]
+        # This implements cpp-like semantics for relative-path inclusion.
+        if isinstance(self.infile, str) and not os.path.isabs(newfile):
+            newfile = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(self.infile), newfile)
+        return (newfile, open(newfile, "r"))
+
+    def error_leader(self, infile=None, lineno=None):
+        "Emit a C-compiler-like, Emacs-friendly error-message leader."
+        if infile is None:
+            infile = self.infile
+        if lineno is None:
+            lineno = self.lineno
+        return "\"%s\", line %d: " % (infile, lineno)
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return self
+
+    def __next__(self):
+        token = self.get_token()
+        if token == self.eof:
+            raise StopIteration
+        return token
+
+def split(s, comments=False, posix=True):
+    lex = shlex(s, posix=posix)
+    lex.whitespace_split = True
+    if not comments:
+        lex.commenters = ''
+    return list(lex)
+
+
+_find_unsafe = re.compile(r'[^\w@%+=:,./-]', re.ASCII).search
+
+def quote(s):
+    """Return a shell-escaped version of the string *s*."""
+    if not s:
+        return "''"
+    if _find_unsafe(s) is None:
+        return s
+
+    # use single quotes, and put single quotes into double quotes
+    # the string $'b is then quoted as '$'"'"'b'
+    return "'" + s.replace("'", "'\"'\"'") + "'"
+
+
+def _print_tokens(lexer):
+    while 1:
+        tt = lexer.get_token()
+        if not tt:
+            break
+        print("Token: " + repr(tt))
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    if len(sys.argv) == 1:
+        _print_tokens(shlex())
+    else:
+        fn = sys.argv[1]
+        with open(fn) as f:
+            _print_tokens(shlex(f, fn))
diff --git a/supervisor/datatypes.py b/supervisor/datatypes.py
index caae74280..117fb0feb 100644
--- a/supervisor/datatypes.py
+++ b/supervisor/datatypes.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import signal
 import socket
 import shlex
+import sys
 
 from supervisor.compat import urlparse
 from supervisor.compat import long
@@ -68,7 +69,20 @@ def dict_of_key_value_pairs(arg):
     """ parse KEY=val,KEY2=val2 into {'KEY':'val', 'KEY2':'val2'}
         Quotes can be used to allow commas in the value
     """
-    lexer = shlex.shlex(str(arg), posix=True)
+    # shlex has a bug that fixed in Python 2.7.13 and Python 3.6.0.
+    # We keep an newest version in local to solve this problem.
+    # Detail see:
+    #   http://bugs.python.org/issue21999
+    if sys.version_info < (2, 7, 13):
+        # use local shlex
+        from . import _shlex2 as _shlex
+    elif sys.version_info.major == 3 and sys.version_info < (3, 6, 0):
+        # use local shlex
+        from . import _shlex3 as _shlex
+    else:
+        _shlex = shlex
+
+    lexer = _shlex.shlex(str(arg), posix=True)
     lexer.wordchars += '/.+-():'
 
     tokens = list(lexer)
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 08b570f64..70f351244 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ commands =
     py.test --cov=supervisor --cov-report=term-missing --cov-report=xml {posargs}
 deps =
     {[testenv]deps}
+    coverage==4.2; python_version<'3'
     pytest-cov
 
 [testenv:cover3]