| Summary: | Delete task should not follow symlinks by default | ||
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| Product: | Ant | Reporter: | Trejkaz (pen name) <trejkaz> |
| Component: | Core tasks | Assignee: | Ant Notifications List <notifications> |
| Status: | NEW --- | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | All | ||
This workaround of using removeNotFollowedSymlinks="true" doesn't appear to delete symlinks... so I'm not sure there is a real workaround without using <exec>.
Currently we have to use rm directly.
<exec executable="rm">
<arg value="-rf"/>
<arg path="build"/>
</exec>
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Our builds always clean the build dir like this: <delete dir="build" /> However, I just deleted a couple of my applications, thanks to having a symlink to /Applications and Ant's default behaviour being to follow the symlinks. I now know that I have to do this to get safe behaviour (added in Bug 22632): <delete quiet="true" removeNotFollowedSymlinks="true"> <fileset dir="build" followsymlinks="false"/> </delete> I know that having the less useful defaults for tasks is something like an Ant culture, but in this particular case, the potential for damage is quite high, so I think that the default behaviour should be the safe behaviour.