[issue4489] shutil.rmtree is vulnerable to a symlink attack

[K Richard Pixley]

K Richard Pixley <rich at noir.com> added the comment:

How does "rm -rf" address this issue?  Or does it?

shutils.rmtree should probably do the same thing.

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