safe-rm 0.6 no longer protects symlinks

Written for Safe-rm by François Marier on 2009-05-22

The new release of safe-rm, version 0.6, fixes a bug which caused symbolic links to protected files to be undeletable. Therefore if you create a symlink to /usr/lib, you will now be able to delete it without having to use the real rm explicitly.

You can still use safe-rm to protect regular files and directories from accidental deletion using the rm command, but symbolic links will no longer be protected.

Another minor enhancement included in this release is the change in the message displayed by safe-rm when a protected file is skipped. The new message should now make it explicit who is to blame when a file isn't being deleted.