Re: glob qualifier '-' doesn't work correctly on dangling symlinks

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2020-04-12 13:48:43 +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> For convenience, the proposed wording in the attached is
> 
> item(tt(-))(
> toggles between making the qualifiers work on symbolic links (the
> default) and the files they point to, if any; a broken symbolic link
> is treated as a file in its own right
> )

The term "broken symbolic link" should properly be defined.
It seems that the zsh code ignores all stat() errors, so that
this may be very surprising, if not dangerous. Imagine a script
whose goal is to remove all dangling symlinks, but could remove
valid ones due to undetected errors as not reported by zsh...

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