Directory.deleteRecursively fails if the directory contains symlinks

[munificent]

Reproduce:

$ cat temp.dart

import('dart:io');

main() => new Directory('foo').deleteRecursivelySync();
$ mkdir foo
$ cd foo
$ ln -s ../temp.dart whatever
$ cd ..
$ dart temp.dart

Error:

Unhandled exception:
DirectoryIOException: Deletion failed, path = foo (OS Error: Directory not empty, errno = 66)
 0. Function: '[email protected]' url: 'dart:io' line:669 col:7
 1. Function: '::main' url: 'file:///.../temp.dart' line:2 col:53

Expected Result:

I'd like it to delete the directory, but not step into those symlinks and delete what they point to. Just delete the symlink files themselves.

[madsager]

Yes, symlinks are not yet handled in the File and Directory APIs. There are a couple of bugs on this. Unifying into one bug.

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Added Duplicate label.
Marked as being merged into #2516.

[munificent]

Thanks!

[DartBot]

This comment was originally written by @financecoding

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Looks like I might of duplicate file this bug here http://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=3031

[kevmoo]

Removed Area-IO label.
Added Area-Library, Library-IO labels.