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

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> Martin proposed
> <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-May/119555.html> to
> re-implement os.fwalk inside of rmdir which I’m -1
> <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-May/119556.html> on.

I agree that it isn't worth the hassle.

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