[Bug 1528316] [NEW] pyhton3 flask hangs on file changes using send_from_directory

[Benjamin Baez]

Public bug reported:

I was getting an exception randomly on minetest master-server that I
traced back to "send_from_directory".  When I searched on the web I
found the problem was already reported and resolved a few years back.

Similar Error
https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/issues/1169

Bug Fix:
https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask/pull/921

Please update the package with bug fix reported above.

Thank you!

Summary of issue from a user on GitHub:

welshjf commented on May 1 
I've hit this problem too; perhaps I can clarify what's going on.
send_from_directory tests for existence based on the safe_join of directory and filename. So if directory is relative, this is relative to the current working directory of the process -- pretty unreliable. send_file, however, expands relative paths based on current_app.root_path, and does not have any existence check.
Thus, if the CWD and root_path do not match, send_from_directory may prematurely raise a 404 for files that do exist, or fail to do so for files that happen to exist in the CWD but not the root_path. In the second case, you get a 500 internal error when os.path.getsize or

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: python3-flask (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-25.26~14.04.1-generic 3.19.8-ckt2
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-25-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Dec 21 10:20:51 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-09 (12 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 14.04.3 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta i386 (20150805)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: flask
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: flask (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 trusty

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