Does this help at all? http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2004/Feb/msg00331.html
Sai Pullabhotla Phone: (402) 408-5753 Fax: (402) 408-6861 www.jMethods.com On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Niklas Gustavsson <nik...@protocol7.com>wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <elecha...@apache.org> > wrote: > > It may be just a matter of checking that the file can be deleted, then > check > > that the working directory still exists after having done the deletion. > If > > so, we are golden, otherwise, we have to recreate it, and send an error. > > Recreating it will cause several side effects (might change ownership, > permissions, inode). > > > In case the working directory is not empty, the deletion will fail > anyway. > > > > if we don't want to delete the working directory for some reason, we can > > rename it. > > Not convinced this is a very good anyways. As mentioned previously, > FTP server file systems are commonly monitored for file changes, > concurrent users might access the same directory and so on. I would > prefer that we either do or do not do an action, rather than doing it > in several steps. > > Let me whip up a prototype and we can test it on the available platforms. > > /niklas >
