Proposal: removeDirectoryRecursive should not follow symlinks

Simon Hengel sol at typeful.net
Tue Jan 6 06:14:54 UTC 2015


And for what it's worth, -1 for a deprecation cycle.

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 01:53:58PM +0800, Simon Hengel wrote:
> > I propose to backwards incompatibly change the behavior of
> > removeDirectoryRecursive to not follow symlinks.
> 
> +1
> 
> > We could optionally add a replacement function under a new name which
> > does follow symlinks.
> 
> -1 (I don't see the need for this)
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
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