Robert, I've added the option to follow links by default in the new implementation that came with 2,7.
Please try git master or the latest 2.8-SNAPSHOT: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/commons-io/commons-io/2.8-SNAPSHOT/commons-io-2.8-20200706.215152-9.jar Gary On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 12:17 PM Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> >
