Re: [Monotone-devel] Changes in nvm.basic_io.inventory

[William Uther]

Zack Weinberg wrote:

> (It should be mentioned, though, that we have to be very very careful
> with non-file, non-directory objects.  Even calling open() on one can
> have nasty consequences, such as blocking monotone until an external
> event that may never occur, or screwing up the operation of unrelated
> processes on the same computer.  This is why we reject them on sight;
> it's pure defensiveness.)

Hrm.  My last commit changed this slightly.  We now:

  a) try to delete them when doing recursive deletes
  b) Note that a directory with them is not empty rather than  
erroring if we're looking to see if a dir is empty.
  c) Otherwise we throw an exception.

It might be worth someone reviewing my commit...   
a765b29c8756648bef93e38c6731cac8833414c9

Be well,

Will       :-}