[issue7412] distutils install race condition

Steve Dower added the comment: Distutils is now deprecated (see PEP 632) and all tagged issues are being closed. From now until removal, only release blocking issues will be considered for distutils. If this issue does not relate to distutils, please remove the component and reopen it. If

[issue7412] distutils install race condition

Christian Heimes added the comment: This is not a security problem per se. It's rather a request to chance the behavior of package installation. -- type: security -> behavior ___ Python tracker

[issue7412] distutils install race condition

Christian Heimes added the comment: Donald, what is your opinion on this issue? -- assignee: tarek -> dstufft nosy: +christian.heimes, dstufft versions: +Python 3.6 -Python 2.7, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker

[issue7412] distutils install race condition

Changes by Ezio Melotti ezio.melo...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue7412 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue7412] distutils install race condition

Rene Dudfield ill...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: Hi Tarek, moving a package into place right at the end is the best thing to do I think. It solves a couple common problems: - broken packages after an install is stopped half way for one of many common reasons. - old files

[issue7412] distutils install race condition

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

[issue7412] distutils install race condition

New submission from Rene Dudfield ill...@users.sourceforge.net: hello! Pythons distutils has a race condition where it starts to copy files into the python path whilst installing. This is a race condition, since python programs can be importing the package whilst the package is being