Re: Proposal: removeDirectoryRecursive should not follow symlinks

This is not a bugfix. A bug is failing to follow the functions specification, which *does* include following symlinks. On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:16 AM, Alois Cochard wrote:

+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 wrote:

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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

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