Proposal: removeDirectoryRecursive should not follow symlinks

[Andreas Abel]

I also consider this a bugfix.  Bugfixes (hopefully) change semantics 
and break backwards-compatibility (but in a good way).

+1 for fixing and backporting as far as possible.

On 06.01.2015 08:53, Milan Straka wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>> -----Original message-----
>> From: "Edward Z. Yang" <ezyang at mit.edu>
>> Sent: 5 Jan 2015, 14:25
>>
>> 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 to changing behaviour of removeDirectoryRecursive.
>
> -1 to depreciation cycle and a replacement function.
>
> To me, this feels like bugfixing, not backwards incompatible change, as
> the current behaviour is unexpected and potentially harmful.
>
> Cheers,
> Milan Straka
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