[issue4489] shutil.rmtree is vulnerable to a symlink attack

Antoine Pitrou report at bugs.python.org
Mon Nov 7 11:54:49 CET 2011

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Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> I think the best thing would be to let rmtree fail (provided it closes 
> all the FDs it opened)

Agreed.

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