From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 24714@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24714: delete-directory race condition
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 09:19:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d1izzedl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jsoa2jyav6.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Sun, 16 Oct 2016 22:20:45 -0400)
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 22:20:45 -0400
>
> I believe this is due to a race condition in delete-directory.
> Emacs seems to be lacking an equivalent of "rm -rf".
>
> (delete-directory "/tmp/foo")
>
> will fail with "No such file or directory" if a file in /tmp/foo
> happen to be deleted by some other process in between the time that
> delete-directory calls directory-files and the time it calls delete-file.
IMO, delete-directory should simply catch ENOENT errors and ignore
them when it deletes files and subdirectories under the "recursive"
option. Other errors should signal an error as they do now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-17 6:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-17 2:20 bug#24714: delete-directory race condition Glenn Morris
2016-10-17 6:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-10-17 15:52 ` Glenn Morris
2016-10-17 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-17 17:00 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-10-18 16:50 ` Glenn Morris
2016-10-18 16:44 ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-18 16:55 ` Glenn Morris
2016-10-18 16:59 ` Glenn Morris
2016-10-19 7:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-20 6:50 ` Paul Eggert
2016-10-21 11:53 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-10-21 12:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-10-21 12:10 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-10-21 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-21 20:07 ` Paul Eggert
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