[Zope] Cautionary tale -- OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[Toby Dickenson]

On Friday 04 April 2003 4:51 pm, John Ziniti wrote:

> It then dawned on me that we do a lot of "os.chdir()" in our Products
> to make sure we are in a directory we can write in.  We also have
> at least one Product that deletes it's working directory after it is done.

Beware that chdir affects all threads in a process. If this method is invoked 
by two concurrent threads then one will not be writing in the directory that 
it expected.

> Hope this helps someone sometime,

Indeed

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Toby Dickenson
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