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authorPaul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>2016-12-22 15:19:57 +1300
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2017-01-09 13:39:11 +0000
commitfff7563799f7ea049c290fc04484f96b69a744ca (patch)
tree8ca2acea7076e2bd12bc5f073f00ab0bdd6953e9 /meta
parent022a8b58c862a1db68c2dcddc908317e5d61d92e (diff)
downloadpoky-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')
-rw-r--r--meta/lib/oe/path.py9
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):
92 copytree(src, dst) 92 copytree(src, dst)
93 93
94def remove(path, recurse=True): 94def remove(path, recurse=True):
95 """Equivalent to rm -f or rm -rf""" 95 """
96 Equivalent to rm -f or rm -rf
97 NOTE: be careful about passing paths that may contain filenames with
98 wildcards in them (as opposed to passing an actual wildcarded path) -
99 since we use glob.glob() to expand the path. Filenames containing
100 square brackets are particularly problematic since the they may not
101 actually expand to match the original filename.
102 """
96 for name in glob.glob(path): 103 for name in glob.glob(path):
97 try: 104 try:
98 os.unlink(name) 105 os.unlink(name)