Proposal: removeDirectoryRecursive should not follow symlinks

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> wrote:

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


You will find that essentially all other implementations do the right thing
and not follow symlinks, because the other behavior is a severe bug. I
really do not understand why anyone believes the current behavior is
defensible.

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