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Bryan C. Mills bb34112d4d os: document Readlink behavior for relative links
Also provide a runnable example to illustrate that behavior.

This should help users to avoid the common mistake of expecting
os.Readlink to return an absolute path.

Fixes #57766.

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src os: document Readlink behavior for relative links 2023-12-07 17:27:54 +00:00
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