From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
Cc: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>, 5436@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5436: 23.1.91; Deleting directories causes unusable file layout in freedesktop trashcan
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:04:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ockghmy6.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B5E2A32.6010306@harpegolden.net> (David De La Harpe Golden's message of "Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:33:06 +0000")
David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net> writes:
> Just the delete-directory change _is_ a marked improvement, since it
> does mean that the subsequent failure mode when you try to delete from
> a different filesystem to your /home is less obnoxious:
>
> - Without the delete-directory change, the xdev behaviour is very bad
> indeed:
>
> Say you have /usr/local and /home on different filesystems, as is
> quite common, and you delete-directory a tree in /usr/local with
> delete-by-moving-to-trash on - first, a few leaf regular files from a
> dir of the tree may be moved to trash (flattened), and only a bit
> later the operation will fail, when the first directory rename is
> attempted. Leaving behind a (maybe large) tree that might look
> untouched to casual inspection following an apparently-failed deletion
> operation, but actually with a few files missing, moved to the trash.
> Eek.
I understand what you are saying. How about conditioning the
delete-directory change on delete-by-moving-to-trash?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-26 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-21 12:50 bug#5436: 23.1.91; Deleting directories causes unusable file layout in freedesktop trashcan Tassilo Horn
2010-01-22 16:20 ` Chong Yidong
2010-01-22 22:58 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-01-24 4:14 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-01-24 9:46 ` Tassilo Horn
2010-01-24 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-01-24 20:19 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-01-24 20:25 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-01-25 19:00 ` Chong Yidong
2010-01-25 23:33 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-01-26 16:04 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2010-01-27 0:06 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-01-27 4:10 ` Chong Yidong
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