When the 
followSymlinks option is enabled and a directory entry
is a symbolic link, we resolve it to determine the type of the symlink
target. This option controls the behavior when encountering symlink
loop errors during resolution.
When set to 
True, symlink loop errors are ignored, and the type
of the entry is reported as not a directory. When set to 
False,
the directory read operation fails with an error.
The default is 
True.
On Windows this option has no effect as of now, symlinks are not
followed to determine the type.