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Vinod K V updated HADOOP-6631: ------------------------------ Attachment: HADOOP-6631-20100506.2.txt Updated patch fixing javac warning and including some comments from related to the test-case. > FileUtil.fullyDelete() should continue to delete other files despite failure > at any level. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > 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 > Assignee: Ravi Gummadi > Fix For: 0.22.0 > > Attachments: HADOOP-6631-20100505.txt, HADOOP-6631-20100506.2.txt, > hadoop-6631-y20s-1.patch, hadoop-6631-y20s-2.patch, HADOOP-6631.patch, > HADOOP-6631.patch, HADOOP-6631.v1.patch > > > 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'). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.