can't delete directory symlinks??

[Collins]

On Sunday 21 December 2003 10:14, Net Llama! wrote:
> I've just discovered some rather odd behavior when I can no longer
> delete symlinks that point to directories.
>
> For example, if I have:
> ln -s bar foo
> foo -> bar
>
> where bar is a directory, if I try to delete foo:
> rm foo
> rm: cannot remove `foo/': Not a directory
>
> Am i missing something obvious?

Sorry I can't recreate this behavior on my system.

mkdir bar
ln -s bar foo
rm foo
	no message, foo link is gone

Now, rmdir foo fails of course with a similar message

ln -s bar foo
rmdir foo
	rmdir: `foo': Not a directory

rm -r foo
	no message, link is gone
	
HTH,

-- 
Collins