On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 04:20:06PM +0200, Éric Araujo wrote: > > 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?
The lock to avoid race conditions (if you were thinking along those lines) would usually be implemented at the higher level code which is using extractall in threads. Checking that no one else is accessing the file before unlinking may not be suitable for the library method and of course, we cannot check if someone is waiting to act on that file. -- Senthil _______________________________________________ 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
