Proposal: removeDirectoryRecursive should not follow symlinks

[Greg Weber]

How about being backwards-compatible friendly by adding a new function with
the friendly behavior, adding a deprecation notice to the existing
function, and putting the existing function under a new name that signifies
the -rf? That would put me at a +1

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:31 PM, David Feuer <david.feuer at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1. Following symlinks in such a potentially-destructive operation is
> fundamentally wrong.
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at mit.edu> wrote:
> > Discussion period: one month
> >
> > I propose to backwards incompatibly change the behavior of
> > removeDirectoryRecursive to not follow symlinks.  We could optionally
> > add a replacement function under a new name which does follow symlinks.
> >
> > This would bring its behavior inline with rm -rf.
> >
> > I also opened a ticket here:
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9266
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Edward
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