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[jira] [Commented] (IO-522) Symbolic links get followed in deleteQuietly

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-522?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=17274393#comment-17274393 ] 

Boris Unckel commented on IO-522:
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This has been solved [https://github.com/apache/commons-io/blob/fa59009aaabcf8671a8d741993ef355f42b95ccd/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/file/DeletingPathVisitor.java#L136]

Please close the issue.

> Symbolic links get followed in deleteQuietly
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 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
>
> 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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