New submission from Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever....@gmail.com>:
distutils.dir_util.mkpath() is used to create a directory and is supposed to not fail when this directory already exists. There's a chance that another process will create this directory between os.path.isdir() check and call to os.mkdir(). This was reproduced by a Gentoo user during parallel installation of Python: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311437 I'm attaching the patch. ---------- assignee: tarek components: Distutils files: distutils-dir_util.patch keywords: patch messages: 110538 nosy: Arfrever, tarek priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Race condition in distutils.dir_util.mkpath() versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18036/distutils-dir_util.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9281> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
