arphaman added a comment.

In D114968#3168123 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D114968#3168123>, @dexonsmith 
wrote:

> In D114968#3167519 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D114968#3167519>, @jansvoboda11 
> wrote:
>
>> Assuming the filesystem doesn't change during dependency scanning, this 
>> change keeps the consistency between stat/read calls for minimized files.
>>
>> Thinking about it some more though, the original reason for reading files 
>> eagerly (even for stat calls) was most likely to avoid inconsistencies when 
>> the file changes on the filesystem between stat and read. Is that correct, 
>> @arphaman? If so, I think I should abandon this patch.
>
> Agreed; that consistency is important. I don't think stat should be decoupled 
> from reading the file.

Yes, exactly, it was to avoid the file system change inconsistencies. it should 
not be decoupled .


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