I've not got the full context, but I would like to make it *very* clear in the API (e.g. through naming of the methods) when you are getting a possibly cached result from stat(), and I would be very concerned if existing APIs were going to get caching behavior. For every use cases that benefits from caching there's a complementary use case that caching breaks. Since both use cases are important we must offer both APIs, in a way that makes it clear to even the casual reader of the code what's going on.
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