Martin v. Löwis added the comment: I think it should be possible to add a wait=False parameter to rmtree which makes it block until the directory is gone away. This could be similar to the test.support feature added in #15496.
For compatibility, such a flag should default to False, and users need to be aware that this may block "indefinitely". I'd be opposed to specifying a timeout - users who need that can use the non-blocking version, and then loop themselves (or we expose a separate wait function with a timeout). Of course, such a feature could not be added to 2.7. ---------- nosy: +loewis _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15946> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
