Broken sym link attribute

[anta999]

How about adding broken link attribute to file highlighting like in far2 fork ?
Поддержка сломаный ссылок в подстветку файлов ? Как в фопке far2l ?

[yegor-mialyk]

It's hard to tell whether a link is broken or not. The fact that the destination file or folder is inaccessible does not mean that the link is broken: you may just not have enough permissions, or the link is pointing to a network resource which is inaccessible under your account etc.

[anta999]

I think that's enough just for highlighting. just check it with GetFileAttributeW or whatever

[anta999]

[alabuzhev]

Highlighting inaccessible symlinks is a nice idea.
The only problem is that network paths exist and can be used as symlink targets, so it could suddenly become unimaginably slow.

[anta999]

Is it a problem to determine whether a link is a network one? Just ignore them. Or check in the background. But is it really necessary? (network links)