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authorNick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>2012-06-24 06:43:06 (GMT)
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Issue #4489: Rename the feature marker for the symlink resistant rmtree and store it as a function attribute
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@@ -1296,6 +1296,11 @@ shutil
acts on the symlink itself (or creates one, if relevant).
(Contributed by Hynek Schlawack in :issue:`12715`.)
+* :func:`~shutil.rmtree` is now resistant to symlink attacks on platforms
+ which support the new ``dir_fd`` parameter in :func:`os.open` and
+ :func:`os.unlinkat`. (Contributed by Martin von Löwis and Hynek Schlawack
+ in :issue:`4489`.)
+
signal