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tirith install tempdir error handling and retry fix

Cluster 51826 · agent. Data as of

Nothing open on GitHub. Fix merged in #52135 on 24 Jun 2026. Check it covers your case.

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These members address a bug where tirith installation retries unboundedly and leaks temporary directories when mkdtemp raises an OSError. The proposed fix catches the error to prevent disk exhaustion and temp-dir leaks.

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  • #52135 fix(tools): catch mkdtemp OSError in tirith install (#51826)

    merged to main

    files: tests/tools/test_tirith_security.py, tools/tirith_security.py

2 PRs closed without merging

From the close comments: merged via another change 1 · other 1

  • #51831 fix(tools): catch mkdtemp OSError in tirith install to prevent unbounded retry and temp-dir leak · merged via another change → dbf0797, #51831
  • #51928 fix(tirith): cache tempdir install failures · other → eb6a388, #133832
Closed issues · 1
  • Closed#51826tirith auto-install retries unboundedly and leaks /tmp/tirith-install-* dirs, exhausting disk
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