Re: delete selected folder leaves empty dir on disk

[John Alton Tamplin]

Rob Siemborski wrote:

Yeah, we know about this. There's no good way around it, since a totally
separate imapd could be selected on the folder as well, and the directory
would still be left around.

So is it ok to sweep the filesystem and delete any empty directories? Would that leave a race condition with an imapd creating a new folder?

It seems like it should be safe to rmdir() the directory even if some process is sitting on it or has it open -- there might need to be additional error checking to handle a directory disappearing unexpectedly, but that doesn't seem to be a big problem.

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