From 1db45dbd7a0ed6514785a14dcdbc8aac6c0f757f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?=C5=81ukasz=20Langa?= <lukasz@langa.pl>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:19:38 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] use `lstat()` instead of `stat()` to properly handle symbolic
 links

---
 README.rst    | 5 +++++
 src/bitrot.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index d2acab8..a2cd2d4 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ under 10 minutes. Both tests on HFS+.
 Change Log
 ----------
 
+0.5.2
+~~~~~
+
+* bugfix: symbolic links are now properly skipped
+
 0.5.1
 ~~~~~
 
diff --git a/src/bitrot.py b/src/bitrot.py
index 97fe219..8830252 100644
--- a/src/bitrot.py
+++ b/src/bitrot.py
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ def run(verbosity=1, test=False):
     for path, _, files in os.walk(current_dir):
         for f in files:
             p = os.path.join(path, f)
-            st = os.stat(p)
+            st = os.lstat(p)
             if not stat.S_ISREG(st.st_mode) or p == bitrot_db:
                 continue
             paths.append(p)