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recursive option for fs.rmdir #27764

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@silverwind
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opened on May 18, 2019

fs.mkdir gained a recursive option in 10.12 (providing alternative to the mkdirp module) and I think the popularity of the rimraf module speaks for itself that there is very high userland to justify having it on fs.rmdir and it's variants too.

Examples of other languages implementing similar functionality are golang's os.RemoveAll or python's shutil.rmtree.

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  2. silverwind commented on May 18, 2019

    @silverwind
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    on May 18, 2019
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    If we are to implement this in JS, we can use the withFileTypes of fs.readdir to skip on stat calls which will outperform the current implementation of rimraf.

  3. cjihrig commented on May 18, 2019

    @cjihrig
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    on May 18, 2019
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    Related work that stalled out due to performance concerns: #24252

  4. silverwind commented on May 18, 2019

    @silverwind
    silverwind
    on May 18, 2019
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    Okay, so this is a duplicate of #22686, closing.

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    closed this as completedon May 18, 2019
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