[libvirt] [PATCH v3 01/16] Introduce a virFileDeleteTree method

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:25:10AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/10/2013 04:08 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Introduce a method virFileDeleteTree for recursively deleting
> > an entire directory tree
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
> > ---
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * virFileDeleteTree:
> > + *
> > + * Recursively deletes all files / directories
> > + * starting from the directory @dir. Does not
> > + * follow symlinks
> 
> I would add a comment mentioning that this function is not efficient to
> use on arbitrarily large or deep hierarchies.  But I agree with Michal's
> ACK.

I added:

@@ -652,6 +652,11 @@ int virFileLoopDeviceAssociate(const char *file,
  * Recursively deletes all files / directories
  * starting from the directory @dir. Does not
  * follow symlinks
+ *
+ * NB the algorithm is not efficient, and is subject to
+ * race conditions which can be exploited by malicious
+ * code. It should not be used in any scenarios where
+ * performance is important, or security is critical.
  */



Daniel
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