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bug#24714: delete-directory race condition


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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