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Previously, we had to stat() the target of a link during read_link to determine if it was a file or a directory to store that in LinkType.

This was pretty silly, because we only actually care about this in the write path: Directories on Windows can be written using junction points, which is preferred.

First, I tried splitting the data structures used for the read and write codepaths, so that we'd only pass this in for the write codepath, but then I realized that we never actually want to write file symlinks, and doing so would be a portability hazard for Windows, so this PR just removes support for that instead.

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Commit: 346cf64 | About building and testing Next.js

pnpm test-dev test/e2e/app-dir/navigation/navigation.test.ts (job)

  • app dir - navigation > middleware redirect > should change browser location when router.refresh() gets a redirect response (DD)
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● app dir - navigation › middleware redirect › should change browser location when router.refresh() gets a redirect response

expect(received).toBe(expected) // Object.is equality

Expected: "http://localhost:39451/redirect-on-refresh/dashboard"
Received: "http://localhost:39451/redirect-on-refresh/auth"

  1034 |       const browser = await next.browser('/redirect-on-refresh/auth')
  1035 |       await retry(async () =>
> 1036 |         expect(await browser.url()).toBe(
       |                                     ^
  1037 |           next.url + '/redirect-on-refresh/dashboard'
  1038 |         )
  1039 |       )

  at toBe (e2e/app-dir/navigation/navigation.test.ts:1036:37)
  at retry (lib/next-test-utils.ts:868:14)
  at Object.<anonymous> (e2e/app-dir/navigation/navigation.test.ts:1035:7)

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Comment on lines +186 to +189
/// [`LinkTarget::Absolute`] targets are normalized and relative to the *filesystem root* (so
/// that absolute system paths never end up in the persistent cache).
/// [`LinkTarget::Relative`] targets are raw values read from the link — unnormalized, may
/// contain `..` — and are relative to the *directory containing the link*.

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nit: this restates LinkTarget docs, maybe amend those instead

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/// The returned [`LinkTarget`] is root-relative and normalized for [`LinkTarget::Absolute`]
/// links, or the raw link-relative on-disk value for [`LinkTarget::Relative`] links.

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just restating the enum docs?, simplify?

target: &LinkTarget,
) -> Result<FileSystemPath> {
let (base, target) = match target {
LinkTarget::Absolute(target) => (link_path.root().owned().await?, target),

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nit: i think this can be non-async with FileSystemPath::new_normalized_unchecked(link_path.fs, target)

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