[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #63265] rmdir fails to remove directory containing read-only files

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #21, bug #63265 (project octave):

I just did a test with R2022b, and indeed "delete" seems to take care of
individual read-only files too. 
The calls as seen by the usual procmon don't even seem to differ between the
normal and r/o cases (suggesting they might not even be doing any particular
check, they just steamroll over everything and anything). 
Not really a fan of this tbh, even though this is probably what they also use
for rmdir. 

TIL about unlink. 
According to stackoverflow and msdn SHFileOperation could get you a very short
and simple way to recursively delete non-empty folders and their content (but
maybe that's too high level for your tastes, and alas maximum matlab
compatibility would still require other adjustments anyway). 


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