bpo-30511: Add note on thread safety to shutil.make_archive() (GH-26933…

…) (GH-27274) 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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diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
@@ -595,6 +595,10 @@ provided.  They rely on the :mod:`zipfile` and :mod:`tarfile` modules.
 
    .. audit-event:: shutil.make_archive base_name,format,root_dir,base_dir shutil.make_archive
 
+   .. note::
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+      This function is not thread-safe.
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    .. 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"``.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-07-20-21-03-18.bpo-30511.eMFkRi.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-07-20-21-03-18.bpo-30511.eMFkRi.rst
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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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		Clarify that :func:`shutil.make_archive` is not thread-safe due to
		reliance on changing the current working directory.