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Gary D. Gregory resolved IO-522.
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Fix Version/s: 2.9.0
Resolution: Fixed
> Symbolic links get followed in deleteQuietly
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> Key: IO-522
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-522
> Project: Commons IO
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Utilities
> Affects Versions: 2.5
> Reporter: Daniel Temme
> Assignee: Stian Soiland-Reyes
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 2.9.0
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> IO-168 describes the problem.
> `deleteQuietly` will behave correctly for nested symlinks but the initial
> call erroneously calls `cleanDirectory`. Calling `deleteDirectory` and
> returning would probably be the better behaviour (analogous to `forceDelete`)
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