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Improvement
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Status: Open (View Workflow)
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Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
Description
We want to be able to wipe workspaces containing files created via Docker containers (and thus owned by root). In a shell, as jenkins, we can delete root-owned files/folders as long as they are within jenkins-owned directories. But this function ( https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/blob/6c2fffb/core/src/main/java/hudson/Util.java#L299 ) fails in that case.
Perhaps, it's due to a windowsOS java limitation which cannot delete a non-empty directory?
Could it be possible to create a special implementation for unix, that allows deletion of non-empty directories and thus supports the use-case mentioned above?
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JENKINS-64874 declarative pipeline post do not execute in agent
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Activity
Philippe Dupont
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Philippe Dupont
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| Field | Original Value | New Value |
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| Summary | Jenkins cannot delete files owned by root in folders he own | Jenkins cannot delete root-owned files/folders in jenkins-owned directories |
| Issue Type | Bug [ 1 ] | Improvement [ 4 ] |
| Workflow | JNJira [ 157421 ] | JNJira + In-Review [ 179575 ] |
Jules Dupont
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| Comment | [ +1 – I'm not sure if our setup is atypical, but we're running the jenkins user as non-root (to avoid potential security issues and because we're starting agents from the master node via SSH) and we're running docker as root to avoid to a bunch of problems that happen otherwise. As a result, this bug leads to the accumulation of hundreds of GBs of files on all of our Linux agents. This is definitely not minor for us. ] |
| Link | This issue relates to JENKINS-64874 [ JENKINS-64874 ] |