Proposal: removeDirectoryRecursive should not follow symlinks

[Ben Gamari]

"Edward Z. Yang" <ezyang at mit.edu> writes:

> 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.
>
+1. The fact that this function (which I've reached for regularly)
behaves like this is unexpected and a bit terrifying.  It's mildly
amazing that there haven't been more complaints of lost data due to this
behavior.

Cheers,

- Ben
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