<p></p>
<p>Actually, recursive deletion was never removed from <code>killdir</code>. That error message was added in r7997 (<a class="commit-link" data-hovercard-type="commit" data-hovercard-url="https://github.com/ohrrpgce/ohrrpgce/commit/24e91ed6505e33fb65d1c7da6dbeb1b4ad3dca8f/hovercard" href="https://github.com/ohrrpgce/ohrrpgce/commit/24e91ed6505e33fb65d1c7da6dbeb1b4ad3dca8f"><tt>24e91ed</tt></a>)</p>
<pre><code>+  ' For safety. (You ought to pass absolute paths.) Check
+  ' writability so we don't recurse if started from e.g. /home until
+  ' we hit something deletable (this happened to me)!
+  IF LEN(directory) < 5 ORELSE diriswriteable(directory) = NO THEN
+   showerror "killdir: refusing to delete directory '" & directory & "'"
+   EXIT SUB
+  END IF
</code></pre>
<p>(Since reworded to "killdir: refusing suspicious attempt to delete directory")</p>
<p>But no sign of the error now, 3 1/2 years later, so I'll close this.</p>

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