Eryk Sun added the comment:
> 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
Steve Dower added the comment:
What about renaming the base directory in place? Moving things across drives
doesn't help, and we can't reasonably determine a suitable location for temp
files other than by leaving them where they are.
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New submission from Alexander Riccio :
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
