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| author |   Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> | 2016-12-22 15:19:57 +1300 |
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| committer |   Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-01-09 13:39:11 +0000 |
| commit | fff7563799f7ea049c290fc04484f96b69a744ca (patch) | |
| tree | 8ca2acea7076e2bd12bc5f073f00ab0bdd6953e9 /meta/lib | |
| parent | 022a8b58c862a1db68c2dcddc908317e5d61d92e (diff) | |
| download | openembedded-core-contrib-fff7563799f7ea049c290fc04484f96b69a744ca.tar.gz | |
lib/oe/path: add warning comment about oe.path.remove() with wildcarded filenames
Add a warning in the doc comment for oe.path.remove() about using that
function on paths that may contain wildcards in the actual
file/directory names.
(From OE-Core rev: 18cc0965741102bccc62dfb32ed7753cdacbadc7)
Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'meta/lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | meta/lib/oe/path.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/meta/lib/oe/path.py b/meta/lib/oe/path.py index 804ecd5fea..d4685403c5 100644 --- a/meta/lib/oe/path.py +++ b/meta/lib/oe/path.py @@ -92,7 +92,14 @@ def copyhardlinktree(src, dst): copytree(src, dst) def remove(path, recurse=True): - """Equivalent to rm -f or rm -rf""" + """ + Equivalent to rm -f or rm -rf + NOTE: be careful about passing paths that may contain filenames with + wildcards in them (as opposed to passing an actual wildcarded path) - + since we use glob.glob() to expand the path. Filenames containing + square brackets are particularly problematic since the they may not + actually expand to match the original filename. + """ for name in glob.glob(path): try: os.unlink(name) |