[Issue 11501] New: dirEntries fails with "Failed to stat file" when encountering broken symlinks

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https://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11501

           Summary: dirEntries fails with "Failed to stat file" when
                    encountering broken symlinks
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: Phobos
        AssignedTo: nobody at puremagic.com
        ReportedBy: thelastmammoth at gmail.com


--- Comment #0 from thelastmammoth at gmail.com 2013-11-11 14:39:52 PST ---
on posix (at least OSX), create a broken symlink somewhere inside a directory
dirEntries will fail when it encounters it.
correct behavior should be to skip by default broken symlinks (maybe introduce
an option to throw) as try/catch is expensive; or maybe populate statbuf with
special values when this happens instead of throwing.

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