From 52fe4407b8237743ab006dd50d827c995ef1e2aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sean <morriss@me.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 10:29:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] when mkdir of missing app folders, handle broken links
 properly

---
 gluon/admin.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gluon/admin.py b/gluon/admin.py
index 9615956f..3d8d13c8 100644
--- a/gluon/admin.py
+++ b/gluon/admin.py
@@ -438,7 +438,11 @@ def add_path_first(path):
 def try_mkdir(path):
     if not os.path.exists(path):
         try:
-            os.mkdir(path)
+            if os.path.islink(path):
+                # path is a broken link, try to mkdir the target of the link instead of the link itself.
+                os.mkdir(os.path.realpath(path))
+            else:
+                os.mkdir(path)
         except OSError as e:
             if e.strerror == 'File exists': # In case of race condition.
                 pass