Re: delete selected folder leaves empty dir on disk

[John Alton Tamplin]

Rob Siemborski wrote:

We do currently call rmdir() on the directory.

The applicable code is in mailbox_delete() in mailbox.c if you'd like to
suggest a patch.

Since rmdir() doesn't delete it, I assume that means there is some entry in the directory which wasn't deleted. Since you have apparently looked at this before, what is the cause? Is unlink failing on some file for some reason, or is it a race condition of a file being created after the opendir() and before the rmdir() loop?

This has been particularly annoying here during the conversion, because Mail::IMAPClient uses temporary folders and it deletes them while they are selected, leaving thousands of empty top-level directories. I shut the server down and cleaned them up, but that isn't something I would like to do often.

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