Steve Dower <steve.do...@python.org> added the comment:

> We're faced with the choice between either always calling the real lstat, or 
> just documenting that files with hard links will have stale information if 
> the file was updated using another link.

That's an easy choice: we document it.

The os module comes with the assumption that platform-specific behaviour may 
vary, so this is really just a helpful note about a known variation on Windows. 
It is not a warning, just a note.

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