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doc: clarify copyFile symlink behavior - #62941

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Summary

  • document that copyFile APIs follow symbolic links
  • cover source and destination symbolic-link behavior for callback, promise, and sync variants

Fixes: #61518

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  • node tools/lint-md/lint-md.mjs doc/api/fs.md
  • make doc-only
  • make lint-js-doc
  • make lint-md
  • git diff --check
  • manual Node assertion script for source and destination symbolic-link behavior

nodejs-github-bot added doc Issues and PRs related to the documentations. fs Issues and PRs related to the fs subsystem / file system. labels Apr 24, 2026
cookesan marked this pull request as ready for review April 24, 2026 23:34
Signed-off-by: T <cookesan@users.noreply.github.com>
cookesan force-pushed the docs/copyfile-symlinks branch from 35a4e21 to eaa830d Compare April 30, 2026 20:32

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Status note: this is approved and the current checks are green. If no further changes are needed, this should be ready for a committer to land.

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aduh95 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2026
Signed-off-by: T <cookesan@users.noreply.github.com>
PR-URL: #62941
Fixes: #61518
Reviewed-By: Aviv Keller <me@aviv.sh>
aduh95 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2026
Signed-off-by: T <cookesan@users.noreply.github.com>
PR-URL: #62941
Fixes: #61518
Reviewed-By: Aviv Keller <me@aviv.sh>
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Document that fs.copyFile() dereferences symlinks

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