Ignore symlinks that point to nonexistent targets #669
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We attempt to evaluate symlinks when recursively scanning for files in a given scan path; however, this tends to pollute output when the symlinks point to targets that don't exist.
For example,
-compat
packages are essentially a collection of symlinks but the target is not installed as part of the package:Scanning this file fails:
Instead, this PR returns gracefully when this is the case and logs the error instead: