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From: Bill.J.Fellows@mail.sprint.com
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 09:30:09 -0500
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Subject: RE: delete error
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It's a known feature.  To delete symbolic links, one must shell out to 
the OS to remove it.  I don't know about 1.4 and whether it deletes the 
link instead of the target.

/bill

-----Original Message-----
From: matti [mailto:matti@sedonacorp.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 9:04 AM
To: ant-dev
Cc: matti
Subject: delete error


has anyone else noticed that when you do a "delete" operation, it 
follows symbolic
links?  This is really bad, especially for those of use using RCS 
and/or 
SCCS, when
we want to delete a checked out build structure automatically.  Is this 
fixed in Ant1.4?

-- 
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