From 53c2f4c1bb367a6f6b6e060b06367fbfc021fb53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Cammarata <jimi@sngx.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 10:59:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix race condition on creating the temp directory for
 ControlPersist

Fixes #3943
---
 lib/ansible/runner/connection_plugins/ssh.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/runner/connection_plugins/ssh.py b/lib/ansible/runner/connection_plugins/ssh.py
index 5ba0747676..589cecbbdd 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/runner/connection_plugins/ssh.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/runner/connection_plugins/ssh.py
@@ -43,9 +43,12 @@ class Connection(object):
         self.user = user
         self.password = password
         self.private_key_file = private_key_file
-        self.cp_dir = utils.prepare_writeable_dir('$HOME/.ansible/cp',mode=0700)
         self.HASHED_KEY_MAGIC = "|1|"
 
+        fcntl.lockf(self.runner.process_lockfile, fcntl.LOCK_EX)
+        self.cp_dir = utils.prepare_writeable_dir('$HOME/.ansible/cp',mode=0700)
+        fcntl.lockf(self.runner.process_lockfile, fcntl.LOCK_UN)
+
     def connect(self):
         ''' connect to the remote host '''