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Bug 362750

Summary:	[TCF][File System] Add a "force" option to remove a file or a directory.
Product:	[Tools] TCF	Reporter:	William Chen <william.chen>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Project Inbox <tcf.core-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Eugene Tarassov <eugene>
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P3	CC:	cdtdoug, eugene, uwe.st, william.chen
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	1.0.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description William Chen

2011-11-02 23:10:45 EDT

Build Identifier: 

In the current file system service (IFileSystem), the method to remove a file, i.e., remove, and the method to remove a directory, i.e., rmdir, do not provide the ability to forcibly removing the file or folder. Please add a third parameter to allow forcibly removing a file or folder. The following signatures are suggested:
IToken remove(String file_name, boolean force, DoneRemove done);
 IToken rmdir(String path, boolean force, DoneRemove done);

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Eugene Tarassov

2011-11-03 13:16:01 EDT

What would be the meaning of "force" parameter?
In POSIX, neither rmdir() nor remove() have such parameter.

Comment 2 William Chen

2011-11-04 01:25:11 EDT

The "force" means the same as that of the shell command "rm".
-bash-3.2$ rm --help
Usage: rm [OPTION]... FILE...
Remove (unlink) the FILE(s).

...
  -f, --force           ignore nonexistent files, never prompt

Comment 3 Eugene Tarassov

2011-11-04 11:37:44 EDT

-f is client side option. It controls UI behavior. It does not make any sense in the agent.

Comment 4 William Chen

2011-12-12 01:15:42 EST

Resolved using a client-side resolution.