Strange directory in /home/circleci

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This morning we noticed that that there’s a strange directory in /home/circleci:
drwxr-xr-x 3 circleci circleci 4096 Aug 15 16:42 {,.local

and that directory contains another directory:
drwxr-xr-x 2 circleci circleci 4096 Aug 15 16:42 }bin

I can’t find a place where that would be created in our scripts. Is this an artifact introduced by CircleCI?

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Looks like this is an error in the CircleCI dockerfile!

This commit that went out 4 hours ago updated 71 Dockerfile files with this line:

RUN mkdir -p $HOME/{,.local/}bin

I quickly identified the problem and pushed out a fix but it caused a CI outage for us because we assume a clean home directory. Can someone at CircleCI please fix this ASAP?

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The developer pushed out the fix in this PR: https://github.com/circleci/circleci-images/pull/428/files#diff-5be7479e3c79c36b22f2c65a6d424d31

BUT it’s still creating a bin and .local/bin directory in $HOME. Can someone at CircleCI explain why these directories are being added to the home directory for all base images?