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removeSync() does not error if file to remove exists, but is not writable.

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Operating System:
- macOS 11.3.1
- Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
Node.js version:
- 16.1.0
- 16.0.0
- 14.16.1
fs-extra version:
- 10.0.0

Starting with fs-extra 10.0.0 on node 14.14+, failures to rm a file that exists, but is in an unwritable directory, fail silently. fs-extra 9.1.0 throws an error, and fs-extra on node 12 throw an error.

Note that fs.rm in node 14.14+ is documented to fail silently only if the force parameter is true and the file to delete does not exist.

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Created 2 years ago
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rhwoodcommented, May 13, 2021

I just submitted nodejs/node#38683 as Node does have this bug also.

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RyanZimcommented, May 25, 2021

Closing as wontfix, since this is an upstream bug in Node. Node just merged a fix for this: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/38684; from what I can tell, we should expect that fix to land in Node v17.

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