Proposal: removeDirectoryRecursive should not follow symlinks

[Alois Cochard]

+1 for fixing this

-1 for the deprecation cycle

I don't think it's sane to rely on the current behavior anyway.

Cheers

On 5 January 2015 at 23:25, Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>
> This would bring its behavior inline with rm -rf.
>
> I also opened a ticket here: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9266
>
> Thanks,
> Edward
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