From e1e0bd1f75e64ba4854f288741aa88dfe2f3cf61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Willemsen <dwillemsen@google.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 16:49:38 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Check for broken links when updating linkfiles

If a linkfile is a broken link (destination does not exist), and it
needs to be updated, we didn't notice that it needed to be removed
first. Use lexists instead of exists to check for this condition.

Change-Id: I1f6a1f0193d3fd2b9f7a647836044997f6ab32eb
---
 project.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/project.py b/project.py
index 0808af46..50580880 100644
--- a/project.py
+++ b/project.py
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ class _LinkFile(object):
     if not os.path.islink(absDest) or (os.readlink(absDest) != relSrc):
       try:
         # remove existing file first, since it might be read-only
-        if os.path.exists(absDest):
+        if os.path.lexists(absDest):
           os.remove(absDest)
         else:
           dest_dir = os.path.dirname(absDest)