From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2006-10-05T18:18:24+09:00
Subject: Re: making FileUtils.rm_rf robust: is anyone interested?

Hi,

At Thu, 5 Oct 2006 01:25:00 +0900,
Jim Meyering wrote in [ruby-core:08999]:
> It is not at all trivial to fix this "properly".
> By "properly," I mean in a way that rm_rf can remove an arbitrarily
> deep hierarchy securely while remaining efficient and thread safe.
> Modulo hard-coded diagnostics, the C implementation in the GNU coreutils
> package (src/remove.c) should be appropriate.

It doesn't feel appropriate to chdir inside a library since it affects
whole process.

-- 
Nobu Nakada