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Daniel Blum commented on IO-774:
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Because of this and other issues we have removed most uses of commons-io from
our systems and are looking at removing the rest, so I am afraid I can't spend
more time on this.
> FileUtils.forceDelete may silently not delete directories
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> Key: IO-774
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-774
> Project: Commons IO
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Utilities
> Affects Versions: 2.11.0
> Environment: I am using CentOS 7 and Java 8.
> Reporter: Daniel Blum
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: FileUtilsTest.java
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> Using Linux on NFS, if a file is in use and you delete it, the original file
> is in fact deleted but a ".nfs" file will be left in the directory until the
> thread or process using the file releases its handle. This prevents the
> directory containing from being deleted. The upshot is that if forceDelete is
> called on a directory and there is a file anywhere underneath it which
> something has open, some of the tree will not be deleted with no exception
> being thrown.
> I have attached a simple program which demonstrates the issue.
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