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bpo-30511: Add note on thread safety to shutil.make_archive() (GH-26933
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Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
(cherry picked from commit 64f54b7)

Co-authored-by: andrei kulakov <andrei.avk@gmail.com>
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miss-islington and akulakov authored Jul 21, 2021
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.. audit-event:: shutil.make_archive base_name,format,root_dir,base_dir shutil.make_archive

.. note::

This function is not thread-safe.

.. versionchanged:: 3.8
The modern pax (POSIX.1-2001) format is now used instead of
the legacy GNU format for archives created with ``format="tar"``.
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Clarify that :func:`shutil.make_archive` is not thread-safe due to
reliance on changing the current working directory.

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