Proposal: removeDirectoryRecursive should not follow symlinks

[Antonio Nikishaev]

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

> 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 for changing it immediately,
-1 for any deprecation period,
-1 for adding the old one under another name

Motivation: even if documented, the behaviour is severe bug with
security implications.  I don't think anyone in the right mind would
expect such a function to follow symlinks.