rimraf removes files not owned by the user

[radare]

Default behaviour in the unix rm is not to remove files that are not owned by the user or doesn't have permissions for it by default. rimraf removes them without reporting this which can be dangerous or maybe undesired in some situations.

This is the test case, which i wrote for the rmdir npm module:

dreamerslab/node.rmdir#11

But using this index.js:

require('rimraf')('foo', console.log);

[yoshuawuyts]

rimraf is like unix rm -rf; does appending the -f flag also report errors?

Only have a single user on all my machines; would've verified it directly otherwise.

[isaacs]

If you don't have permission to remove the dir, then it'll error.

If you don't own it, but you do have permission to remove it, then it will just silently remove it, like rm -rf. That's what the f says.

This is 100% working exactly as designed.

$ mkdir -p foo/bar/baz

$ sudo chown nobody foo

$ node -p 'require("rimraf").sync("foo")'
/Users/isaacs/dev/js/rimraf/rimraf.js:304
        throw er
        ^

Error: ENOTEMPTY: directory not empty, rmdir 'foo'
    at Error (native)
    at Object.fs.rmdirSync (fs.js:763:18)
    at rmkidsSync (/Users/isaacs/dev/js/rimraf/rimraf.js:334:11)
    at rmdirSync (/Users/isaacs/dev/js/rimraf/rimraf.js:324:7)
    at Function.rimrafSync [as sync] (/Users/isaacs/dev/js/rimraf/rimraf.js:295:9)
    at [eval]:1:19
    at Object.exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:54:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> ([eval]-wrapper:6:22)
    at Module._compile (module.js:434:26)
    at node.js:566:27

$ sudo node -p 'require("rimraf").sync("foo")'
undefined

$ ls -laF foo
ls: foo: No such file or directory