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Author steve.dower
Recipients Cezary.Wagner, eryksun, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date 2020-06-26.16:22:54
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> We're faced with the choice between either always calling the real lstat, or just documenting that files with hard links will have stale information if the file was updated using another link.

That's an easy choice: we document it.

The os module comes with the assumption that platform-specific behaviour may vary, so this is really just a helpful note about a known variation on Windows. It is not a warning, just a note.
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