Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> added the comment: As you said, this race condition can happen even if you copy the file in some temp dir, then move them to python. That would reduce the window, but not remove it.
The best way to avoid it is to stop any running Python process when updates occurs I guess, or work on some kind of protected import statement. Now I am not sure about potential breakages during installation at Distutils' level since it just copies files to site-packages only once everything is built. The only breakage I have in mind is when there's some kind of I/O error when copying files on the disk. So I agree that it would be better to save any file that is about to be overriden when the install command starts to copy files, so it can rollback if a problem occurs. ---------- priority: -> low versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7412> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
