From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: 24714@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24714: delete-directory race condition
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 22:20:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jsoa2jyav6.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
Package: emacs
Version: 25.1
On current Debian testing, many tests in package-test.el fail for me with:
Test package-test-update-listing condition:
(file-error "Removing old name" "No such file or directory"
"/tmp/pkg-test-user-dir-27293kBj/gnupg/S.gpg-agent.rstrd")
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.
next reply other threads:[~2016-10-17 2:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-17 2:20 Glenn Morris [this message]
2016-10-17 6:19 ` bug#24714: delete-directory race condition Eli Zaretskii
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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