FileUtil.fullyDelete() should continue to delete other files despite failure at
any level.
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Key: HADOOP-6631
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6631
Project: Hadoop Common
Issue Type: Bug
Components: fs, util
Reporter: Vinod K V
Fix For: 0.22.0
Ravi commented about this on HADOOP-6536. Paraphrasing...
Currently FileUtil.fullyDelete(myDir) comes out stopping deletion of other
files/directories if it is unable to delete a file/dir(say because of not
having permissions to delete that file/dir) anywhere under myDir. This is
because we return from method if the recursive call "if(!fullyDelete()) {return
false;}" fails at any level of recursion.
Shouldn't it continue with deletion of other files/dirs continuing in the for
loop instead of returning false here ?
I guess fullyDelete() should delete as many files as possible(similar to 'rm
-rf').
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