test_no_raw_project_walk flagged the rglob in DirectoryBatchTests.tearDown. It walks the test's own TemporaryDirectory to make every directory writable again before cleanup, after tests that leave an unwritable parent behind, so the cached project-file helpers do not apply.
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Directory loops over ansible.builtin.file cost one SSH round trip per path: the openresty config tree (20 paths) took up to 12.9 s, the webserver core directories (16) up to 13.2 s, every app's compose directories (5) 2.5-5 s per app, the shared CDN roots 5.8 s and the OpenLDAP LDIF dirs 2.2 s on echoserver.
directory_batch takes entries (path plus its own mode, owner, group) or paths with one shared set, and handles each path like file with state: directory: symlinks are followed, missing parents get the same attributes, an attribute left out stays as found, and it never recurses. It reports changed_paths, supports check and diff mode, and fails on a relative path, an existing non-directory or a failed mkdir. It replaces the five loops and the earlier install -d of the CDN role directories, which now report changed honestly.
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