Re: [Duplicity-talk] current directory

[Kenneth Loafman]

We can try to make it foolproof, but the universe keeps making better fools.  🙂

Some people mount the cache to remote.  I'd go with a cd to our tempdir.  The real solution is to find a hard location that the user can't remove during execution, cd, and make an exec syscall to start over.

Seems a bit complex to solve what is essentially a pilot error.

...Ken

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 7:08 AM, <address@hidden> wrote:

Ken,

so you'd rather keep it as is and oppose to adding a chdir as a precaution? or not?

..ee/duply.net

On 15.02.2017 13:44, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> In my experience, just starting in a transient directory can cause problems, mounted or static.  A cd at that point might help, but no guarantees, and really no good way to test it.
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> For me, problems occurred mostly when trying to exit or kill a Python program after its cwd had gone away.
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> ...Ken
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> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 6:28 AM, <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
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>     he's probably aware of the workaround. any reason for us not to chdir into say, archive dir?
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>     ..ede/duply.net <http://duply.net>
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>     On 15.02.2017 13:23, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
>     > This is probably not in duplicity, but in Python itself.  I've had other Python programs get 'wobbly' when the cwd is in a directory that disappears, especially if the cwd is mounted.  Try running from home or tmp.
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>     > ...Ken
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>     > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 5:25 AM, edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk <address@hidden <mailto:address@hiddenorg> <mailto:address@hiddenorg <mailto:address@hiddenorg>>> wrote:
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>     >     i don't see any.
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>     >     ..ede/duply.net <http://duply.net> <http://duply.net>
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>     >     On 15.02.2017 12:20, Dirk-Willem van Gulik via Duplicity-talk wrote:
>     >     > Duplicity throws a wobbly when the `cwd’ it was started from disappears prior or during runtime.
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>     >     > Any reason why it could not ‘cd’ into its own DB or temp dir ?
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