a bug in File::Path ver: 1.0401

Hi Tim and Charles

I've found a bug in the module File::Path ver: 1.0401. 

The documentations says that: "Symlinks are treated as ordinary files". 
Aparrently they aren't since rmtree() cannot handle directories that
include symlinks. 

This little snippet represents the problem:

test.pl
----
use File::Path;
File::Path::mkpath("foo",0,0777);
system "ln", "-s", "foo/foo1", "foo/foo2";
File::Path::rmtree("foo",0,1);

$ perl -w test.pl
Can't remove directory foo: Directory not empty at test.pl line 4

Result: The tree is not completely deleted.

Relevant system specs:

$ uname -a
Linux stas 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep 27 10:25:54 EDT 1999 i586 unknown

$ perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.2.5-22smp, archname=i386-linux
    uname='linux porky.devel.redhat.com 2.2.5-22smp #1 smp wed jun 2
09:11:51 edt 1999 i686 unknown '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux
(egcs-1.1.2 release)
    cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
    ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Aug 30 1999 23:09:51
  @INC:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    .


Thank you!


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