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Mark Chaimungkalanont commented on IO-147:
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Niall,
Any thoughts on this patch? Do you think it's something that would trigger off
a quick 1.3.3 release? It's something that we're pretty keen on as well.
Cheers,
Mark C
> Deletion of orphaned Softlinks does not work
> --------------------------------------------
>
> 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
> Attachments: FileUtils.patch
>
>
> 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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