The following test must run without raising an exception on systems supporting symbolic links:
with Ada.Directories; use Ada.Directories; with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO; procedure Delln is F1 : constant String := "libname.so"; F2 : constant String := "libname.so.1"; File : File_Type; begin Delete_File (F1); Delete_File (F2); end Delln; $ touch libname.so $ ln -s libname.so libname.so.1 $ gnatmake -a delln Tested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, committed on trunk 2012-06-12 Pascal Obry <o...@adacore.com> * a-direct.adb (Delete_File): Delete symbolic links silently instead of raising the Name_Error exception when the symbolic link is pointing to a non existent file.
Index: a-direct.adb =================================================================== --- a-direct.adb (revision 188428) +++ a-direct.adb (working copy) @@ -31,20 +31,20 @@ with Ada.Calendar; use Ada.Calendar; with Ada.Calendar.Formatting; use Ada.Calendar.Formatting; +with Ada.Characters.Handling; use Ada.Characters.Handling; with Ada.Directories.Validity; use Ada.Directories.Validity; +with Ada.Strings.Fixed; with Ada.Strings.Maps; use Ada.Strings.Maps; -with Ada.Strings.Fixed; with Ada.Strings.Unbounded; use Ada.Strings.Unbounded; with Ada.Unchecked_Conversion; with Ada.Unchecked_Deallocation; -with Ada.Characters.Handling; use Ada.Characters.Handling; +with System; use System; with System.CRTL; use System.CRTL; +with System.File_IO; use System.File_IO; with System.OS_Constants; use System.OS_Constants; with System.OS_Lib; use System.OS_Lib; with System.Regexp; use System.Regexp; -with System.File_IO; use System.File_IO; -with System; use System; package body Ada.Directories is @@ -561,7 +561,9 @@ if not Is_Valid_Path_Name (Name) then raise Name_Error with "invalid path name """ & Name & '"'; - elsif not Is_Regular_File (Name) then + elsif not Is_Regular_File (Name) + and then not Is_Symbolic_Link (Name) + then raise Name_Error with "file """ & Name & """ does not exist"; else