FileUtils Bug in 1.8.0

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Does the current installation of Ruby have this problem?

cat test.rb

require ‘fileutils’

Dir.mkdir(“fred”)
Dir.mkdir(“neighbor”)

FileUtils.ln_s(“…/neighbor”,“fred/upandover”)

FileUtils.rm_rf(“fred”)

ruby -v test.rb
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [sparc-solaris2.8]
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:583:in rmdir': Not a directory - fred/upandover (Errno::ENOTDIR) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:583:in remove_dir’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:577:in remove_dir' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:573:in foreach’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:573:in remove_dir' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:534:in rm_r’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:526:in each' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:526:in rm_r’
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:550:in `rm_rf’
from test.rb:9

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