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Author	draghuram
Recipients	draghuram, gvanrossum, ntkoopman
Date	2007-12-20.17:25:50
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Message-id	<1198171550.37.0.14609351653.issue1669@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I am ok with disallowing symlinks in rmtree() because if it were to be allowed, the semantics are not clear. In addition, neither 'rmdir' nor 'rm -rf' delete the target directory. The attached patch would raise error if symbolic link is passed to rmtree. Even though there is a parameter 'ignore_errors", I don't think it should be used in suppressing symbolic link error. Comments?

I am ok with disallowing symlinks in rmtree() because if it were to be
allowed, the semantics are not clear. In addition, neither 'rmdir' nor
'rm -rf' delete the target directory. 

The attached patch would raise error if symbolic link is passed to
rmtree. Even though there is a parameter 'ignore_errors", I don't think
it should be used in suppressing symbolic link error. Comments?

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rmtree.diff	draghuram, 2007-12-20.17:25:50

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2007-12-20 17:25:50	draghuram	set	spambayes_score: 0.3559 -> 0.35589996 recipients: + draghuram, gvanrossum, ntkoopman
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