Timothee Besset <[email protected]> added the comment:
It's a symlink that points to a file that doesn't exist. There are many ways
this can happen, in this particular case my text editor (emacs) seems to keep
some metadata about which user, machine and process is editing a file. I tried
to reproduce in 2.6 (Debian sid amd64) and I can confirm it still happens:
t...@ttimozilla:~$ mkdir test
t...@ttimozilla:~$ cd test
t...@ttimozilla:~/test$ ln -s foo bar
t...@ttimozilla:~/test$ ls -1l bar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 timo timo 3 Apr 19 17:12 bar -> foo
t...@ttimozilla:~/test$ ls -1l foo
ls: cannot access foo: No such file or directory
t...@ttimozilla:~/test$ python2.6
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Mar 20 2010, 03:56:44)
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import shutil
>>> shutil.copytree( '../test', '../test2' )
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/shutil.py", line 177, in copytree
raise Error, errors
shutil.Error: [('../test/bar', '../test2/bar', "[Errno 2] No such file or
directory: '../test/bar'")]
>>>
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