GNU bug report logs - #24714
delete-directory race condition

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 02:21:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.1

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #15 received at 24714 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 24714 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24714: delete-directory race condition
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 19:00:55 +0200

On Okt 17 2016, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> 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.

That is ok.  The operation cannot successfully be completed in this case.

> Frankly I don't see how Emacs's delete-directory can work reliably as
> currently implemented.

A property it shares with any other operation recursing on directories,
in Emacs or elsewhere.

Andreas.

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