Ed W wrote:
> It's very, very rare that you want to follow symlinks when deleting
> things...
> There was probably something very specific about the way they are
> running /var/lock or /var/run which made them think it was useful?
My guess is that they had a case where /var/lock or /var/run (i.e. the
toplevel directory) was itself a symlink. Of course the right way to
solve that is use the paths /var/lock/. and /var/run/. instead of the -L
flag.
Christian.