Re: symbolic links, unreadable files, skip

[Jason Hood]

On 27/08/2015 21:33, Shigio YAMAGUCHI wrote:

> Isn't there a way to decide whether it is a dead link?

Sure, test if fopen fails. :)

> It is not opentoken() but parsers that call die().

Yeah, that's what I meant.

> It might be difficult to force plug-in parsers not to die.

Plug-in parsers can do what they want, that's not the issue.

You ignore files when stat fails, why not ignore files when
fopen fails?  That's what the attached patch does.  Oh, I
was also able to successfully use skip on the broken link,
so I don't know what went wrong there.

-- 
Jason.

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