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>

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 24714 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24714: delete-directory race condition
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 09:19:34 +0300

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> 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.
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