TemporaryDirectory ignore_cleanup_errors flag is not robustic
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Description
Bug report
Bug description:
When using ignore_cleanup_errors flag in TemporaryDirectory context manager, there's a path that will raise an issue.
In the onerror function that's being called when error in rmtree function:
If the first error is FileNotFound, pass
If it's everything else, check the ignore_errors flag, and raise if set to False
if the error was PermissionsError first try to change the permissions (the call to _resetperms , and then try to remove the files again. But the the call to resetparams is in an outer try, which is a lot weaker, and catching only the FileNotFoundError . But in our case, this very call raised PermissionError (yet again). It was not caught and raised back to our code.
Internal logs
2025-06-16 08:07:41 - ERROR - failed to solve strawman_local_enumeration: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/tmp/tmpsrelpq9p/__pycache__'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.11.8/x64/lib/python3.11/shutil.py", line 701, in _rmtree_safe_fd
os.unlink(entry.name, dir_fd=topfd)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'main.cpython-310.pyc'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/runner/work/CTF/CTF/src/solvers/solvers/solve_remote/solve_remote.py", line 212, in solve_remote_single
return solve_challenge_on_local_solver(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.11.8/x64/lib/python3.11/tempfile.py", line 287, in _resetperms
_dont_follow_symlinks(_os.chmod, path, 0o700)
File "/opt/hostedtoolcache/Python/3.11.8/x64/lib/python3.11/tempfile.py", line 278, in _dont_follow_symlinks
func(path, *args)
PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/tmp/tmpsrelpq9p/__pycache__'
CPython versions tested on:
3.11
Operating systems tested on:
macOS, Linux
Linked PRs
- gh-150696
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Research direction
Start with tempfile.py's _resetperms and the TemporaryDirectory cleanup path, then compare it with shutil.rmtree's onerror handling. Reproduce the PermissionError case on Python 3.11 on macOS or Linux and add a regression test showing that ignore_cleanup_errors prevents the cleanup failure from escaping.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100