Perhaps a risk of deleting the symlink target instead of the link itself? On 20 May 2015 at 15:46, Damien Cassou <damien.cas...@inria.fr> wrote:
> The FileSystem library uses DeleteVisitor and PostorderGuide > (depth-first) to delete a directory and all its children. All its > children? No. Symlinks are protected from deletion: > > DeleteVisitor>>visit: aReference > PostorderGuide > show: aReference > to: self > selecting: [ :entry | entry isSymlink not ] > > > I didn't find any unit-test or documentation about why symlinks are > excluded from deletion. I don't see any reason. I'm quite sure the > author had a reason to do that but I don't know which one. > > Anybody has an idea? > > -- > Damien Cassou > http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st > > "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without > losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill > > -- Damien Pollet type less, do more [ | ] http://people.untyped.org/damien.pollet
