Bug 4281

Summary: Built in Ant task Delete follows symbolic links by default
Product: Ant Reporter: Colby Gooding <colby.gooding>
Component: Core tasksAssignee: Ant Notifications List <notifications>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 1.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: HP   
OS: HP-UX   

Description Colby Gooding 2001-10-18 16:07:33 UTC
The built-in Ant task 'Delete' appears to follow symbolic links by default 
without the option to not follow links.  Most programs on most unix systems 
either do not follow symbolic links by default and/or allow the option to 
follow symbolic links; it would be nice if Ant followed that same convention, 
at least giving the user the option before plastering files and directories 
that were links in the original delete path.
Comment 1 Magesh Umasankar 2001-10-18 17:21:58 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1550 ***