Github user srowen commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/2670#discussion_r18474437 --- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/util/Utils.scala --- @@ -666,15 +673,27 @@ private[spark] object Utils extends Logging { */ def deleteRecursively(file: File) { if (file != null) { - if (file.isDirectory() && !isSymlink(file)) { - for (child <- listFilesSafely(file)) { - deleteRecursively(child) + try { + if (file.isDirectory && !isSymlink(file)) { + var savedIOException: IOException = null + for (child <- listFilesSafely(file)) { + try { + deleteRecursively(child) + } catch { + // In case of multiple exceptions, only last one will be thrown + case ioe: IOException => savedIOException = ioe + } + } + if (savedIOException != null) { + throw savedIOException + } } - } - if (!file.delete()) { - // Delete can also fail if the file simply did not exist - if (file.exists()) { - throw new IOException("Failed to delete: " + file.getAbsolutePath) + } finally { --- End diff -- The problem I was seeing is that an empty directory was listed and returned `null` for some reason, which generates an `IOException` and then leaves the parent hanging around even though it's empty. I'm not sure why it was happening but it was reliable when running `UtilsSuite` in my IDE. Hence I wanted to make this a little more defensive ... it seems as fine to fail for not listing the dir or not deleting dir?
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