[issue8523] shutil.rmtree and os.listdir cannot recover on error conditions

[Tarek Ziadé]

Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> added the comment:

Looking at your example rubenlm, it appears like a case that is missing in rmtree().

You are trying to chmod your tree if a file in there cannot be removed because of the permissions. This sounds like something we need to add in rmtree() directly, for example under a "force_permissions" flag that would handle permission failures by trying to chmod.

I think rmtree() should not try to delegate the hard work to third party code, and should try to handle as much failures as possible, 
and just return errors.

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