GitHub user tillrohrmann opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2970
[FLINK-5300] Add more gentle file deletion procedure Before deleting a parent directory always check the directory whether it contains some files. If not, then try to delete the parent directory. This will give a more gentle behaviour wrt storage systems which are not instructed to delete a non-empty directory. cc: @StefanRRichter You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/tillrohrmann/flink moreGentleFileDeletion Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2970.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #2970 ---- commit 62d3d28f675aaad203d655848d30e9fb916af43b Author: Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> Date: 2016-12-08T17:53:40Z [FLINK-5300] Add more gentle file deletion procedure Before deleting a parent directory always check the directory whether it contains some files. If not, then try to delete the parent directory. This will give a more gentle behaviour wrt storage systems which are not instructed to delete a non-empty directory. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---