Proposal: removeDirectoryRecursive should not follow symlinks

[David Feuer]

In case some people don't understand just how horrible this is: imagine a
privileged user uses this to erase a user's home directory. It could easily
hit a symbolic link to a critical system directory and hose the whole
machine.
On Jan 5, 2015 6:44 PM, "Brandon Allbery" <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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