Hi - > Hmm, how would the effective behavior of this differ from directly > returning the path? The symlink could become invalid at any time [...]
Effective behaviour is about the same, but code logic and explanation is simpler. > It would make sense if the cache were made to contain a hard link to the > file if it were on the same filesystem as the cache [...] And this could be a QoI implementation detail: prefer hardlink, fall back to symlink. - FChE
