Re: Proposal: removeDirectoryRecursive should not follow symlinks

In case some people don't understand just how horrible this is: imagine a privileged user uses this to erase a user's home directory. It could easily hit a symbolic link to a critical system directory and hose the whole machine. On Jan 5, 2015 6:44 PM, "Brandon Allbery" wrote:

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:

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Aside: can we look at what other languages with similar functions do?

You will find that essentially all other implementations do the right thing and not follow symlinks, because the other behavior is a severe bug. I really do not understand why anyone believes the current behavior is defensible.

-- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net

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