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

[Hynek Schlawack]

Hynek Schlawack <hs at ox.cx> added the comment:

What's the current state here? Anyone working on a solution or are we waiting how http://hg.python.org/features/pathlib/ will work out?

If the consensus is to add a generic walker method, wouldn't be appropriate to open a new bug and add it as dependency? Or is there one I've missed?

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