[Issue 10174] std.file claims files which are symlinks to non-existant files don't exist

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Mon Jun 17 23:35:42 PDT 2013


http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10174


Jameson <beatgammit at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Jameson <beatgammit at gmail.com> 2013-06-17 23:35:41 PDT ---
I like the behavior of exists() because most of the time you only care that the
file can be read. Since a symlink is just a link to a file, the link itself
often doesn't mean that much.

I would, however, like a way to get at lstat() like the current dirEntry().
Perhaps I overlooked this as well?

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