abxml tries to clean dirs even if they don't exist

[Razican]

Seems that we get to run this code: src/apk.rs#L44 even if there is no dist folder in SUPER. What could be happening?

More info: SUPERAndroidAnalyzer/super#121 (comment)

[gnieto]

The code that you link is only executed if the folder could not be created and if the force flag is true:

 if fs::create_dir_all(&output_path).is_err() && force { ... }

What I understand from the linked issue, the target folder can no be written (fs::create_dir_all(&output_path).is_err() will be true) and the force flag is enabled. In this case, the library tries to first remove the folder and then create it again. This is done to remove the existing data and replace it with the new one.
So it seems just a permissions issue to write to the filesystem.

Do you think that this is a feasible scenario? In fact, when the user ran the application with sudo, the decompression worked.

[Razican]

The thing is that it's happening to two users, but why?