Proposal: removeDirectoryRecursive should not follow symlinks

[Johan Tibell]

-1 For changing the existing function.

+1 For adding it under a different name. +1 to adding a deprecation pragma
to the old one, if we consider the old behavior harmful to users.

Aside: can we look at what other languages with similar functions do?

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Andreas Abel <andreas.abel at ifi.lmu.de>
wrote:

> +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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