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Author hynek
Recipients Arfrever, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, georg.brandl, hynek, jcea, larry, loewis, mrts, ncoghlan, neologix, petri.lehtinen, pitrou, python-dev, rosslagerwall, schmir, tarek, teamnoir
Date 2012-06-28.12:33:03
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> I'm pretty busy right now, please open a ticket for listdir.

done

> _rmtree_safe_fd could remove the directory just after the recursive step using the parent's dirfd.  Of course you'd also have to add a rmdir for the very-tippy-top after the original call in shutil.rmtree too.  But this would prevent the malicious user from even removing empty directories.

Okay I looked into it and it seems okay. IIRC, when Martin wrote the
code (and I the fwalk version before), there was no known fd-based rmdir
function.
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2012-06-28 12:33:04hyneksetrecipients: + hynek, loewis, georg.brandl, jcea, ncoghlan, pitrou, larry, schmir, tarek, ezio.melotti, eric.araujo, Arfrever, mrts, neologix, teamnoir, rosslagerwall, python-dev, petri.lehtinen
2012-06-28 12:33:03hyneklinkissue4489 messages
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