[utils] Fix race condition in make_dir
#6089
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Call
os.makedirs
withexist_ok=True
, rather than performing a separate check withos.path.exists
.This fixes a race condition that can occur when spawning multiple
yt-dlp
processes with the same output directory, where one of the processes crashes withUnable to create directory [Errno 17]: File exists
, due to the interleaving of calls toos.path.exists
andos.makedirs
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