[issue35192] pathlib mkdir throws FileExistsError when not supposed to

2018-11-09 Thread Adam Dunlap
Adam Dunlap added the comment: Thank your for your response. I'm running python 3.5.2. The linked issue is indeed a duplicate of this one. To reproduce, you can run two instances of the attached script at the same time, i.e. python3 pymkdir.py & python3 pymkdir.py. It is a race conditio

[issue35192] pathlib mkdir throws FileExistsError when not supposed to

2018-11-08 Thread Adam Dunlap
New submission from Adam Dunlap : I have 2 processes (one C, one python) that are started at the same time and both need a certain directory tree to exist to continue, so both processes create the directory tree while ignoring errors about it already existing. In the python process, I'm