From 2f3ec7ea25db3ef9a3b210a621fc419f934e88f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2026 22:34:07 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Use a different base temporary directory for each page count
 job

---
 src/calibre/library/page_count.py | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
 src/calibre/ptempfile.py          | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/library/page_count.py b/src/calibre/library/page_count.py
index 14282473a9..e21c802612 100644
--- a/src/calibre/library/page_count.py
+++ b/src/calibre/library/page_count.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ from calibre.ebooks.oeb.polish.container import Container as ContainerBase
 from calibre.ebooks.oeb.polish.parsing import decode_xml, parse
 from calibre.ebooks.oeb.polish.pretty import NON_NAMESPACED_BLOCK_TAGS
 from calibre.ebooks.oeb.polish.toc import get_toc
-from calibre.ptempfile import TemporaryDirectory
+from calibre.ptempfile import TemporaryDirectory, override_base_dir
 from calibre.utils.cleantext import clean_xml_chars
 from calibre.utils.ipc import eintr_retry_call
 from calibre.utils.logging import DevNull
@@ -246,17 +246,18 @@ class Server:
 
 def serve_requests(pipe: Connection) -> None:
     executor = ThreadPoolExecutor()
-    for line in sys.stdin:
+    for i, line in enumerate(sys.stdin):
         path = bytes.fromhex(line.rstrip()).decode()
-        try:
-            result = count_pages(path, executor)
-        except Exception as e:
-            import traceback
-            result = str(e), traceback.format_exc()
-        try:
-            eintr_retry_call(pipe.send, result)
-        except EOFError:
-            break
+        with TemporaryDirectory(suffix=f'.pc{i}') as base_tdir, override_base_dir(base_tdir):
+            try:
+                result = count_pages(path, executor)
+            except Exception as e:
+                import traceback
+                result = str(e), traceback.format_exc()
+            try:
+                eintr_retry_call(pipe.send, result)
+            except EOFError:
+                break
 
 
 def worker_main(pipe_fd: int) -> None:
diff --git a/src/calibre/ptempfile.py b/src/calibre/ptempfile.py
index a6544dfa0d..ac6e5ac3c8 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ptempfile.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ptempfile.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ being closed.
 '''
 import os
 import tempfile
+from contextlib import contextmanager
 
 from calibre.constants import __appname__, filesystem_encoding, get_windows_temp_path, ismacos, iswindows
 from calibre.utils.safe_atexit import remove_dir, remove_file_atexit, remove_folder_atexit, unlink
@@ -105,6 +106,16 @@ def reset_base_dir():
     _base_dir = None
 
 
+@contextmanager
+def override_base_dir(newval: str) -> None:
+    global _base_dir
+    before, _base_dir = _base_dir, newval
+    try:
+        yield
+    finally:
+        _base_dir = before
+
+
 def force_unicode(x):
     # Cannot use the implementation in calibre.__init__ as it causes a circular
     # dependency