Brian McKee wrote:
On 25/04/06, RICHARD FERNANDEZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is there a definative way to recreate the gnu `rm -rf` in perl?
You could use rmtree.
perldoc File::Path
Looks good, but then I saw this:
NOTE: There are race conditions internal to the implementation of
"rmtree" making it unsafe to use on directory trees which may be
altered or moved while "rmtree" is running, and in particular on any
directory trees with any path components or subdirectories potentially
writable by untrusted users.
try the pathrmdir() in File::Copy::Recursive
althought technically any rm -rf (ven the shell itself) has a race
condition since it could clean out directory, move on and then, someone
adds a file between cleaning out the directory and its removal.
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