New submission from Alexander Riccio <test35...@gmail.com>:
The "obvious" way to delete a directory tree on Windows is wrong. It's inherently racy, since deleting a file on Windows *doesn't actually delete it*, instead it marks the file for deletion. The system will eventually get around to deleting it, but under heavy load, this might be sometime after an attempt is made to delete the parent directory. I've seen this (windows error 145, directory is not empty) many times when running the testsuite, and it causes all kinds of intermittent failures. The best way to do things correctly is kinda nuts, and is explained well by Niall Douglass here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhRWMGBjlO8&t=8m54s In short, the correct way to do it involves moving each file to a randomly named file in %TEMP%, then deleting that, and then doing the same with each newly-empty directory. ---------- components: Windows messages: 365520 nosy: Alexander Riccio, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: shutil.rmtree will frequently fail on Windows under heavy load due to racy deletion versions: Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue40143> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
