[jira] Created: (HADOOP-6631) FileUtil.fullyDelete() should continue to delete other files despite failure at any level.

["Vinod K V (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

FileUtil.fullyDelete() should continue to delete other files despite failure at any level.
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                 Key: HADOOP-6631
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6631
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: fs, util
            Reporter: Vinod K V
             Fix For: 0.22.0


Ravi commented about this on HADOOP-6536. Paraphrasing...

Currently FileUtil.fullyDelete(myDir) comes out stopping deletion of other files/directories if it is unable to delete a file/dir(say because of not having permissions to delete that file/dir) anywhere under myDir. This is because we return from method if the recursive call "if(!fullyDelete()) {return false;}" fails at any level of recursion.

Shouldn't it continue with deletion of other files/dirs continuing in the for loop instead of returning false here ?

I guess fullyDelete() should delete as many files as possible(similar to 'rm -rf').

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