[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 1/1] lib/bb/utils: add safeguard against recursively deleting things we shouldn't

[Trevor Woerner]

On 15-04-17 10:26 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Add some very basic safeguard against recursively deleting paths such
> as / and /home in the event of bugs or user mistakes.
>

I liked Nicolas Dechesne's idea of only allowing deletion in paths that 
include TMPDIR or TOPDIR. Is there any reason bitbake would need to 
delete (potentially dangerous) paths anywhere else?

With a list-based approach the list will keep growing indefinitely. 
Inevitably an ex-Solaris person will come along (for example) and have 
their /home directories in /export/home and need a patch for that, etc, 
etc...