[New-bugs-announce] [issue30693] tarfile add uses random order
Bernhard M. Wiedemann
report at bugs.python.org
Sat Jun 17 22:03:30 EDT 2017
New submission from Bernhard M. Wiedemann:
Filesystems do not give any guarantees about ordering of files returned in directory listings, thus tarfile.add adds files in random order, when using os.listdir in recursion.
See also https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/stable-inputs/ on that topic.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 296251
nosy: bmwiedemann
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: tarfile add uses random order
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7
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