Issue 36621: shutil.rmtree follows junctions on windows (original) (raw)
Issue36621
Created on 2019-04-12 20:35 by Jordan Hueckstaedt, last changed 2022-04-11 14:59 by admin. This issue is now closed.
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| msg340111 - (view) | Author: Jordan Hueckstaedt (Jordan Hueckstaedt) | Date: 2019-04-12 20:35 |
| shutil.rmtree follows junctions / reparse points on windows and will delete files in the target link directory. | ||
| msg396158 - (view) | Author: Irit Katriel (iritkatriel) *  |
Date: 2021-06-20 00:14 |
| The documentation for rmtree[1] now says: Changed in version 3.8: On Windows, will no longer delete the contents of a directory junction before removing the junction. So I think this issue can be closed. [1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/shutil.html#shutil.rmtree | ||
| msg396163 - (view) | Author: Eryk Sun (eryksun) *  |
Date: 2021-06-20 06:34 |
| Yes, this issue is out of date. shutil._rmtree_isdir() and shutil._rmtree_islink() were added to handle mount points (i.e. junctions) as if they're symlinks. More generally, junctions and symlinks are what the platform refers to as name-surrogate reparse points. This category isn't handled generically by rmtree(). It wouldn't be hard to generalize the implementation, but that's something for a new issue. |
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| Date | User | Action | Args |
| 2022-04-11 14:59:13 | admin | set | github: 80802 |
| 2021-06-20 06:34:47 | eryksun | set | status: pending -> closednosy: + eryksunmessages: + stage: resolved |
| 2021-06-20 00:14:45 | iritkatriel | set | status: open -> pendingnosy: + iritkatrielmessages: + resolution: out of date |
| 2019-04-12 20:35:45 | Jordan Hueckstaedt | create |