Directory not empty errors on watch -sd

[neverfox]

When running mimosa watch -sd on Linux, I'm often to hit with ENOTEMPTY, directory not empty but eventually it will take if I run it enough times. Is this simply a limitation of the fs module dealing with OS quirks, or is this a possible problem with the recursion?

[Anachron]

You could check this if it fixes your issue.

[dbashford]

That is likely unrelated.

It's one call that does the work.

wrench.rmdirSyncRecursive config.watch.compiledDir

Not sure why that would have trouble. Is that where you get a stack trace? Inside wrench?

[neverfox]

Yes, here is the top of the strack trace:

fs.js:612
  return binding.rmdir(pathModule._makeLong(path));
                 ^
Error: ENOTEMPTY, directory not empty '/run/media/neverfox/Data/Linux/Repos/myproject/public/javascripts/vendor/firebase'
  at Object.fs.rmdirSync (fs.js:612:18)
  at Object.exports.rmdirSyncRecursive (/home/neverfox/.virtualenvs/myproject/lib/node_modules/mimosa/node_modules/wrench/lib/wrench.js:170:15)
  at Object.exports.rmdirSyncRecursive (/home/neverfox/.virtualenvs/myproject/lib/node_modules/mimosa/node_modules/wrench/lib/wrench.js:150:21)
  at Object.exports.rmdirSyncRecursive (/home/neverfox/.virtualenvs/myproject/lib/node_modules/mimosa/node_modules/wrench/lib/wrench.js:150:21)
  at Object.exports.rmdirSyncRecursive (/home/neverfox/.virtualenvs/myproject/lib/node_modules/mimosa/node_modules/wrench/lib/wrench.js:150:21)

It's a different file each time, but the trace is the same. I thought it might be related to the browser holding onto some files, but it happens even when I don't have the browser pointed at the server.

[dbashford]

Guess this might be related to this: ryanmcgrath/wrench-js#71

It is clearly something wrong with wrench. The entire job of rmdirSyncRecursive is to remove a directory and its contents, so an ENOTEMPTY should just not occur.

[neverfox]

Interesting. I know I wasn't having this problem in the past. It seems that it's able to delete a little bit, then it hits a wall. Then when you run it again, a little more goes, etc.