From c55763e650b12b96b97ef8630d3a5277c1237069 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carl Hetherington <cth@carlh.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 13:48:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Try to ignore exceptions thrown from
 boost::filesystem::is_symlink (#1662).

---
 src/lib/film.cc | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/film.cc b/src/lib/film.cc
index 39dfaf5c0..82a00f464 100644
--- a/src/lib/film.cc
+++ b/src/lib/film.cc
@@ -180,7 +180,8 @@ Film::Film (optional<boost::filesystem::path> dir)
 		boost::filesystem::path result;
 		for (boost::filesystem::path::iterator i = p.begin(); i != p.end(); ++i) {
 			if (*i == "..") {
-				if (boost::filesystem::is_symlink (result) || result.filename() == "..") {
+				boost::system::error_code ec;
+				if (boost::filesystem::is_symlink(result, ec) || result.filename() == "..") {
 					result /= *i;
 				} else {
 					result = result.parent_path ();
-- 
2.30.2