[IO-147] Deletion of orphaned Softlinks does not work

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.4

Environment

Debian Linux JDK 1.5

• Assignee: Niall Pemberton
• Reporter: Stefan Lischke
• Created: 18/Dec/07 13:04
• Updated: 22/Aug/08 07:36
• Resolved: 04/Jan/08 12:32

Description

If there is an orphaned softlink a -> b, but b does not exists anymore than the softlink will not be removed. This happens when you call FileUtils.deleteDirectory() and when the linked target b is deleted earlier than the link.

This is caused by the "ugly" file.exists() call in forceDelete()

if (!file.exists()) {
throw new FileNotFoundException("File does not exist: " + file);
}

if this check is not done, everything works as expected. I think this test is not neccessery, cause file.delete will test this better.

Please discuss and change this.

thanx

Stefan