From: "H.Yamamoto" <ocean@...2.ccsnet.ne.jp>
Date: 2005-05-15T16:05:56+09:00
Subject: Re: [ ruby-Bugs-1917 ] Pathname#unlink fails on a symlink which points to a directory.


>ENOTDIR is defined by POSIX.

Yes, but Windows (bcc32 and mswin32) behaves differently....

E:\ruby-cvs\bcc32>irb19
irb(main):001:0> require "pathname"
=> true
irb(main):002:0> Dir.mkdir("tmp")
=> 0
irb(main):003:0> Pathname.new("tmp").unlink
=> 0
irb(main):004:0> File.exist?("tmp")
=> false
irb(main):005:0> open("tmp", "w"){|io| io.puts}
=> nil
irb(main):006:0> File.exist?("tmp")
=> true
irb(main):007:0> Pathname.new("tmp").unlink
Errno::EINVAL: Invalid argument
 - tmp
        from E:/ruby-cvs/ruby/lib/pathname.rb:872:in `unlink'
        from E:/ruby-cvs/ruby/lib/pathname.rb:872:in `unlink'
        from (irb):7