I can see in the code where we do not follow symbolic links. I think we need to: - decide if the default behavior is to follow links. - add an option to toggle that
Gary On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 11:37 AM Robert Turner <rtur...@e-djuster.ca> wrote: > Over the past couple of days (since we upgraded to Commons-IO 2.7), we've > been seeing a strange issue on our build server where our code that cleans > up our automatic test environment fails to clean up folders. The code uses > (in different places) FileUtils.deleteDirectory() and > FileUtils.cleanDirectory(). > > What I've observed is that after invoking one or both of the above on a > directory, all the files are removed from the directory, but the symbolic > links are not. With Commons-IO 2.6, we did not have this issue. > > Testing locally on OSX, I do not see the problem with 2.7. Our build server > is Ubuntu 18.04. There might be some Java differences as well (although > both are 1.8 versions of some variation). > > I've done a quick scan over the code and release notes and I cannot see > anything that jumps out at me, but I haven't gone so far as getting > everything set up for a more isolated test case yet. > > I thought I'd query the community and see if anyone else is observing this > issue, or has any suggestions. > > For the moment, we are reverting the library change to keep our daily > activities going, and when I have a bit more time, I will dig into the > issue in more detail to try to isolate it. > > Comments/thoughts? > > Thanks, > > Robert >
