> On 23 Jun 2015, at 15:37, Rob Hoelz (via RT) <perl6-bugs- > follo...@perl.org> wrote: > Unlinking a non-existent file should fail() rather than return True.
The end-goal of .unlinking stuff is for the file to stop existing. IMO that goal is achieved even if the method is called for non-existent files, so there's no failure to fail with. Also, this behaviour mirrors what Perl 5 does, if I recall. I'm going to untake this ticket (as far as IO grant is concerned) and re-tag is as JVM-only issue in need to remove ability of removing directories from this method. -- IO grant
