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  r86244 | eric.araujo | 2010-11-06 05:48:05 +0100 (sam., 06 nov. 2010) | 3 lines

  Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils.  Patch by Arfrever on #9281.
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2 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py b/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
index 5a96806..d687593 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/dir_util.py
@@ -69,10 +69,11 @@ def mkpath(name, mode=0777, verbose=1, dry_run=0):
         if not dry_run:
             try:
                 os.mkdir(head, mode)
-                created_dirs.append(head)
             except OSError, exc:
-                raise DistutilsFileError, \
-                      "could not create '%s': %s" % (head, exc[-1])
+                if not (exc.errno == errno.EEXIST and os.path.isdir(head)):
+                    raise DistutilsFileError(
+                          "could not create '%s': %s" % (head, exc.args[-1]))
+            created_dirs.append(head)
 
         _path_created[abs_head] = 1
     return created_dirs
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 21552c1..1948498 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils.  Patch by
+  Arfrever.
+
 - Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext.
 
 - Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and