[issue39340] shutil.rmtree and write protected files

Eryk Sun added the comment: > What I would expect is a consistent behaviour and as a > user I am not interested in inner guts of differences > between filesystems. It's already consistent. msg360033 contains a misunderstanding about what write permission on a file means in Unix. The parent

[issue39340] shutil.rmtree and write protected files

Peter Liedholm added the comment: What I would expect is a consistent behaviour and as a user I am not interested in inner guts of differences between filesystems. Regards /Peter -- ___ Python tracker _

[issue39340] shutil.rmtree and write protected files

Eryk Sun added the comment: I'm not certain exactly what you want Python to be doing here, but let's start out by clarifying some concepts. > Reproduction method linux > mkdir test; touch test/file.txt; chmod -w test/file.txt Unlinking a file requires write permission to the parent directory

[issue39340] shutil.rmtree and write protected files

New submission from Peter Liedholm : Ubuntu 18.4 and Windows 7 has different behaviour when deleting write protected files with rmtree. Ubuntu silently deletes them (unexpected?) Windows moans about access denied (expected?) Reproduction method linux mkdir test; touch test/file.txt; chmod -w