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Vinod K V updated HADOOP-6631:
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Attachment: HADOOP-6631-20100506-ydist.final.txt
Patch for yahoo! dist 20 security branch. Not for commit here.
> 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
> Assignee: Ravi Gummadi
> Fix For: 0.21.0
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> Attachments: HADOOP-6631-20100505.txt,
> HADOOP-6631-20100506-ydist.final.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').
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