Re: Proposal: removeDirectoryRecursive should not follow symlinks

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,

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-----Original message----- From: "Edward Z. Yang" 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.

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