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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13353 <delete> follows symbolic links to directories at risk of great data loss! Summary: <delete> follows symbolic links to directories at risk of great data loss! Product: Ant Version: 1.5.1 Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: Other Component: Core tasks AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I discovered the hard way that if I use <delete> to delete a temporary directory created by the build then I must be very careful not to create symbolic links, for test purposes say, to directories outside of my test data. I lost about 6 hours recovering and only because I had a fairly recent backup. It wasn't that I was completely stupid ;-) but that I made a series of changes none of which introduced obvious risk. I consider this a bug because this sort of thing does not happen with other tools available on platforms that support symbolic links. I believe it was introduced sometime since August judging by ant-dev archive. I have a patch that uses utils/FileUtils in taskdefs/Delete.java to check that a directory is not a symbolic link before descending into it, but I am not sure of issues such as backward compatibility. I suggest it might be optional but the default should not descend such links. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
