Hi, I’m still educating myself about concurrency and race conditions, so I hope my naïve question won’t be just a waste of time. Here it is:
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0c8bc3a0130a > user: Senthil Kumaran <orsent...@gmail.com> > summary: > Fix closes issue10761: tarfile.extractall failure when symlinked files > are present. > diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py > --- a/Lib/tarfile.py > +++ b/Lib/tarfile.py > @@ -2239,6 +2239,8 @@ > if hasattr(os, "symlink") and hasattr(os, "link"): > # For systems that support symbolic and hard links. > if tarinfo.issym(): > + if os.path.exists(targetpath): > + os.unlink(targetpath) Is there a race condition here? Thanks Regards _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
