[NETBEANS-3094] NBI Windows Cleaner.exe doesn't delete read-only files

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Reopened
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 11.1
• Component/s: platform - Other
• Labels: pull-request-available

Environment

Windows

• Assignee: Lars Bruun-Hansen
• Reporter: Lars Bruun-Hansen
• Created: 12/Sep/19 19:55
• Updated: 26/Feb/21 14:44

Description

Problem: The Windows Cleaner process isn't able to delete files with read-only attribute set.

 

(Windows Cleaner is a small C application which is part of NBI - NetBeans Installer)

 

This is in particular a problem when the uninstaller tries to delete a bundled JRE as the JRE has files with read-only attribute set.

For the record: this has always been a problem. The Unistaller leaves files behind and the main reason is this. Note that the equivalent on Linux/Mac, the cleaner.sh script, doesn't suffer from the same problem as it does 'rm -f' operation.

It is rather trivial to fix. I'll file a PR.

 

 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1504