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Feature #9260

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make FileUtils.rm_rf raise on errors

Added by bdimych (Dmitry Bolshakov) about 10 years ago. Updated over 1 year ago.

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[ruby-core:59190]

Description

I did have read that "force" flag ignores StandardError,
but it was unexpected for me because of linux's "rm -rf" fails if it can't delete.
"rm --help" says "-f ignore nonexistent files"
Imho it sounds better than just ignore all errors
Why isn't it done this way?


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Related to Ruby master - Feature #18784: `FileUtils.rm_f` and `FileUtils.rm_rf` should not mask exceptionsOpenActions
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Updated by hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA) over 1 year ago

  • Related to Feature #18784: `FileUtils.rm_f` and `FileUtils.rm_rf` should not mask exceptions added

Updated by hsbt (Hiroshi SHIBATA) over 1 year ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed

We continue to discuss this to https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18784.

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