bug#4739: marked as done (23.1.50; recursive delete fails)

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has caused the Emacs bug report #4739,
regarding 23.1.50; recursive delete fails
to be marked as done.

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> 23.1.50; recursive delete fails
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> Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:02:45 +0200
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux)
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> In the following situation Emacs signals an error:
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> $ mkdir -p /tmp/test
> $ ln -s /tmp /tmp/test
> $ emacs -Q /tmp
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> Now move point to the 'test' directory, type 'D' and confirm that you
> want to delete the directory recursively.  An error message appears in
> the echo area:
> (file-error Removing directory Not a directory /tmp/test/tmp)
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> In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.2)
>  of 2009-10-13 on turtle
> (Sorry for not checking a newer version -- Savannah appears to be down,
>  so I cannot upgrade ATM.)
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> Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10605000
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> Re: 23.1.50; recursive delete fails
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> Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:32:12 -0400
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> > Here is a patch that should fix this issue by testing whether the
> > /tmp/test/tmp subdirectory is actually a symlink.  It uses the same
> > trick as the dired-delete-file function to test for that condition:
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> Thanks.  The patch looks good, and I've checked it in.
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