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@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?".
