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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 09:04:52 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: bpo-30511: Add note on thread safety to shutil.make_archive() (GH-26933) (#27276)
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bpo-30511: Add note on thread safety to shutil.make_archive() (GH-26933) (#27276)

Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
(cherry picked from commit 64f54b7ccd49764b0304e076bfd79b5482988f53)

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
index cd925a92a53f..cd32a0a6e0c1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
@@ -592,6 +592,10 @@ 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::
+
+      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"``.
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
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a358fb9cc286
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-07-20-21-03-18.bpo-30511.eMFkRi.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Clarify that :func:`shutil.make_archive` is not thread-safe due to
+reliance on changing the current working directory.