FileException when calling getTimes on a DirEntry

[kdevel]

On Sunday, 24 December 2023 at 20:00:15 UTC, Renato wrote:
> I asked what could be causing an Exception in my code to happen 
> as that was quite unexpected.

As I already wrote: Your code tries to fetch the meta-data for an 
object that does not exist.

> [..]
> Have you ever seen a symlink like the one I'd posted?
>
> ```
> .#hi.txt -> renato at renato.902129:1701726658
> ```

It depends on what counts as "like". If I ask google for an 
explanation of your observation, e.g. by asking

     hidden dangling symlink with username at sign

it leads me more or less directly to

     https://github.com/roxiness/routify/issues/258

     "Emacs by default uses dangling symbolic links to guard 
against
     accidentally editing the same file from two editors"

Know your tools!

> Does that look like your regular symlink?

The name is a valid filename and so is the value. What makes this 
symlink irregular? That it is a dangling symlink?

> I don't think it does... that's what I was actually trying to 
> find out and hoped others here would've seen this weird 
> behaviour before.

I would have expected you asking questions like "Which program 
might have generated that symlink?", "How do I get the meta-data 
from the
symlink and not from the file it points to ?" or "How do I handle 
that exception?".