Whilst shutils.rmtree() is pythonic, its also slow. Its faster to
use rm -rf which makes optimial use of the right syscalls.
(Bitbake rev:
96088ebdec08e49ba9e8dbcac437bfcdc21f5983)
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
"""Equivalent to rm -f or rm -rf"""
if not path:
return
- import os, errno, shutil, glob
+ if recurse:
+ import subprocess
+ # shutil.rmtree(name) would be ideal but its too slow
+ subprocess.call("rm -rf %s" % path, shell=True)
+ return
+ import os, errno, glob
for name in glob.glob(path):
try:
os.unlink(name)
except OSError as exc:
- if recurse and exc.errno == errno.EISDIR:
- shutil.rmtree(name)
- elif exc.errno != errno.ENOENT:
+ if exc.errno != errno.ENOENT:
raise
def prunedir(topdir):