[IO-522] Symbolic links get followed in deleteQuietly

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.5
• Fix Version/s: 2.9.0
• Component/s: Utilities
• Assignee: Stian Soiland-Reyes
• Reporter: Daniel Temme
• Created: 14/Nov/16 14:36
• Updated: 29/Jan/21 18:49
• Resolved: 29/Jan/21 18:49

Description

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`)