note 80360 added to function.rmdir

All of you who proposed routines for recursive deletion of a directory tree, I have one suggestion: if (is_dir($f) && !is_link($f)) { ... } Otherwise, if you happen to have a symbolic link to a directory outside of the one you plan to remove and also have permissions enough to wipe that too, nasty things could happen. It just happened to me, and I had to retrieve lost files from the backup. :-/ ---- Server IP: 212.63.193.10 Probable Submitter: 90.224.255.99 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.rmdir.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/80360 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80360/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80360/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80360/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80360/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80360/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80360/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80360 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/80360 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php