From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2004-04-30T12:50:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug in FileUtils - apathy or bad email

On Friday, 30 April 2004 at  6:39:00 +0900, Warren Brown wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> > Dir.mkdir("fred")
> > Dir.mkdir("neighbor")
> > 
> > FileUtils.ln_s("../neighbor","fred/upandover")
> > 
> > FileUtils.rm_rf("fred")
> > 
> > > ruby -v test.rb 
> > ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [sparc-solaris2.8]
> > /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:583:in `rmdir': Not a directory -
> > fred/upandover (Errno::ENOTDIR)
> > ...
> 
>     I'm don't have a Ruby installation where I am right now, but it
> looks like you are creating a symbolic link to the nonexistent directory
> "../neighbor" instead of the directory you created "./neighbor".  If so,
> the error message looks correct.

"fred" and "neighbor" are siblings. The link inside "fred" points
up and over to "neighbor".

My directory shows this:

   jfreeze@rabbit ~/tmp 11 -> ls -dF fred nei*
   fred/           neighbor/
   jfreeze@rabbit ~/tmp 12 -> dir fred
   total 4
   drwxr-xr-x  2 jfreeze  jfreeze  512 Apr 28 23:58 ./
   drwxr-xr-x  7 jfreeze  jfreeze  512 Apr 29 01:25 ../
   lrwxr-xr-x  1 jfreeze  jfreeze   11 Apr 28 23:58 upandover@ -> ../neighbor


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