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windows: check target type before actual unlinking to follow POSIX semantics

Creation and writing into target file via vfs (a.k.a opener) is done
after "unlink()" target file, if it exists.

For example, it is assumed that the revision X consists of file 'A',
and the revision Y consists of file 'A/B'. Merging revision X into Y
tries to "unlink()" on directory 'A' of 'A/B', before creation of file
'A'.

On POSIX environment, directories should be removed by "rmdir(2)", and
"unlink(2)" on directories fails. "unlink()" of Mercurial (and Python)
uses "unlink(2)" directly, so unlinking in the merge case above would
fail.

In the other hand, on Windows environment, "unlink()" of Mercurial
tries to rename before actual unlinking, to follow POSIX semantics:
already opened file can be unlinked safely.

This causes unexpected success in unlinking in the merge case above,
even though directory 'A' is renamed to another. This confuses users.

This patch checks whether target is directory or not before renaming,
and raises IOError(errno.EPERM) if so, to follow POSIX semantics.

[This file is here for historical purposes, all recent contributors
should appear in the changelog directly]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org>
Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
Vadim Lebedev <vadim at mbdsys.com>
Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
Wojciech Milkowski <wmilkowski at interia.pl>
Chad Netzer <chad.netzer at gmail.com>
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
Vicent Seguí Pascual <vseguip at gmail.com>
Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net>
Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh at gmail.com>
Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr>
Alexander Schremmer <alex at alexanderweb.de>
Arun Sharma <arun at sharma-home.net>
Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc at optonline.net>
Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com>
TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com>
Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl>
Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net>
K Thananchayan <thananck at yahoo.com>
Andrew Thompson <andrewkt at aktzero.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
Rafael Villar Burke <pachi at mmn-arquitectos.com>
Tristan Wibberley <tristan at wibberley.org>
Mark Williamson <mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk>