Proposal: removeDirectoryRecursive should not follow symlinks

[Andreas Abel]

+1 to change implementation as proposed.

On 05.01.2015 23:46, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
> On 2015-01-05 23:25, Edward Z. Yang 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
>>
>
> +1 as is.
>
> -1 on adding a deprecation cycle unless someone can come up with a
> REALLY good reason for that.
>
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