From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:04:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/18] mingw: handle symlinks to directories in `mingw_unlink()`
Message-ID: <14388349-d1b5-fc8f-b6c7-4a7b43e64494@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <20488887-14B7-4471-9241-9CDBC3EAB2E8@gmail.com>

Hi Ben,

On Wed, 17 Dec 2025, Ben Knoble wrote:

> 
> > Le 17 déc. 2025 à 09:17, Karsten Blees via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> a écrit :
> > 
> > From: Karsten Blees <blees@dcon.de>
> > 
> > The `_wunlink()` and `DeleteFileW()` functions refuse to delete symlinks
> > to directories on Windows; The error code woutl be `ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED`
> 
> Casually reading; spotted “woutl.” Presumably would?

Thank you for spotting! Fixed,
Johannes