From 3ebdf3366d1e4bd501df575071acfb4fca134235 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 09:23:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Improve purgedir():

  Fix leading & trailing space handling

  Suggested by: ben

  Handle files beginning with - correctly
  Don't follow symlinks (cd /var/spool/lock; ln -s /. horror)
---
 etc/rc | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/etc/rc b/etc/rc
index 360bc86b543..efa5ecf30cd 100644
--- a/etc/rc
+++ b/etc/rc
@@ -165,10 +165,12 @@ purgedir() {
 		for dir
 		do
 		(
-			cd "$dir" && ls | while read file
+			cd "$dir" && for file in .* *
 			do
-				[ -d "$file" ] && purgedir "$file"
-				[ -f "$file" ] && rm -f "$file"
+				[ ."$file" = .. -o ."$file" = ... ] && continue
+				[ -d "$file" -a ! -L "$file" ] &&
+					purgedir "$file"
+				[ -f "$file" ] && rm -f -- "$file"
 			done
 		)
 		done