New submission from Peter Liedholm :
Python 3.6.9
Ubuntu 18.04
python3 -c 'import shutil; shutil.rmtree("1a")'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/shutil.py", line 486, in rmtree
_rmtree_safe_fd(fd, p
Peter Liedholm added the comment:
Problem is also reported in virtualbox
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19004
>From that ticket some more analysis is done;
strace reveals that Python has kept an open fd for the directory being remo
New submission from Peter Liedholm :
Ubuntu 18.4 and Windows 7 has different behaviour when deleting write protected
files with rmtree.
Ubuntu silently deletes them (unexpected?)
Windows moans about access denied (expected?)
Reproduction method linux
mkdir test; touch test/file.txt; chmod -w
Peter Liedholm added the comment:
What I would expect is a consistent behaviour and as a user I am not interested
in inner guts of differences between filesystems.
Regards
/Peter
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