On Mar 1, Richard Earnshaw wrote
> Have I missed something?  I can't see the problem here.  rm will remove 
> the symlink not the file pointed to (unless some magic options are being 
> used with rm).
> 

The problem is if you remplace a directory with a symlink to another directory.
rm may then remove entries from the target directory, before removing
the symlink.

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