[racket-dev] [plt] Push #29680: master branch updated

At Wed, 14 Jan 2015 09:07:08 -0500, Neil Toronto wrote:
> On 01/13/2015 02:00 PM, mflatt at racket-lang.org wrote:
> > 9f3c82c Matthew Flatt <mflatt at racket-lang.org> 2015-01-13 08:47
> > :
> > | Windows: change `delete-{file,directory}` to attempt permission correction
> > |
> > | If a file or directory delete fails, try adjusting the file or directory
> > | permissions to allow writes, then try deleting again. This process should
> > | provide a more Unix-like experience and make programs behave more
> > | consistently.
> > |
> > | A new `current-force-delete-permissions` parameter provides access to
> > | the raw native behavior.
> 
> If I'm understand the new behavior correctly, it's possible for a 
> failing `delete-file` to raise an exception, having changed the file to 
> be writable. Do I have that right, and is that OK?

That is correct. I'm not too happy about it, but I think it's a good
trade-off relative to the old behavior (as a default).