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From: | Glenn Morris |
Subject: | bug#24714: delete-directory race condition |
Date: | Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:52:31 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> 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. I don't think that's enough, since a file could equally well be _created_ by some other process after delete-directory calls directory-files. Frankly I don't see how Emacs's delete-directory can work reliably as currently implemented.
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