OSX is not Linux is not windows

[Matthieu Moy]

Vincent Ladeuil <v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr> writes:

>             try:
>                 os.unlink(path)
>             except OSError, e:
>                 if not (e.errno == errno.EISDIR

Note that on Solaris, as root, this seems to corrupt your filesystem
(unlink on a directory doesn't fail, but leaves your reference
counting in a broken state for some reason which is behond my
imagination). Git had the problem a while ago and fixed it by placing
the test before the "unlink".

-- 
Matthieu