Fix filenbmanager.list_dirs fails for Windows user profile directory #5333
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Using ipython‑2.0.0‑b1, pyzmq-14.1.0, and tornado‑3.2 on win‑amd64‑py3.4rc3, Windows 8.1, I get
FileNotFoundError
andPermissionError
(below) when starting ipython notebook from within the user profile directory.On Windows >XP, the users profile directories contain hidden junctions such as
NetHood
orMy Documents
for backwards compatibility. Callingos.stat
andos.listdir
on these junctions may fail with various Exceptions.The patch fixes these exceptions for me on win‑amd64‑py3.4 (not tested on other platforms).