bitbake: utils: Improve remove funciton to handle whitespace

Improve the remove function to better handle cases where path contains
special shell chars like whitespaces, '$', ';' or'\'.

Thanks to Enrico Scholz for the fix.

(Bitbake rev: 617511c9f86cc4ef52457653c8adff582d94bce3)

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py b/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
index 8c363dfe20efb3fd8a86738911a16d2bac9702a0..b2f81c8a927ac09b9820e4dbc417aa13916ac9c3 100644 (file)
--- a/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
+++ b/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py
@@ -536,9 +536,9 @@ def remove(path, recurse=False):
     if not path:
         return
     if recurse:
-        import subprocess
+        import subprocess, glob
         # shutil.rmtree(name) would be ideal but its too slow
-        subprocess.call("rm -rf %s" % path, shell=True)
+        subprocess.call(['rm', '-rf'] + glob.glob(path))
         return
     import os, errno, glob
     for name in glob.glob(path):