Perhaps a risk of deleting the symlink target instead of the link itself? On 20 May 2015 at 15:46, Damien Cassou <damien.cassou@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?

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