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  2. JENKINS-40785

Cannot run shell step if control dir parent is not writable

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    • durable-task-plugin
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    • Jenkins 2.36
      durable-task-plugin 1.12

      A major part of our build pipeline is that it needs to chdir around our deployment machines and rollout several components. We were using ws/dir steps in our pipeline script to chdir to our target locations before spawning sh() scripts, but after updating to durable-task 1.12 this no longer works.
      The plugin attempts to create directories in unwritable locations.
      I've looked at the code: https://github.com/jenkinsci/durable-task-plugin/blob/master/src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/durabletask/FileMonitoringTask.java and understand you don't want to write to files inside the workspace, fair enough I guess, but that's not a concern for us.
      Is there a reason this can't either: a) use the regular tmpdir, or b) allow some kind of config for this?
      The current workaround is to make a dir somewhere we know is writable, chdir to it, then have the spawned shell script chdir back out. And then chdir back out once the `sh()` step is finished.

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            jfunnell Jarrod Funnell
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