Deletion of orphaned Softlinks does not work
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Key: IO-147
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-147
Project: Commons IO
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 1.3.2
Environment: Debian Linux JDK 1.5
Reporter: Stefan Lischke
Priority: Critical
If there is an orphaned softlink a -> b, but b does not exists anymore than the
softlink will not be removed. This happens when you call
FileUtils.deleteDirectory() and when the linked target b is deleted earlier
than the link.
This is caused by the "ugly" file.exists() call in forceDelete()
if (!file.exists()) {
throw new FileNotFoundException("File does not exist: " + file);
}
if this check is not done, everything works as expected. I think this test is
not neccessery, cause file.delete will test this better.
Please discuss and change this.
thanx
Stefan
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