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Hey all, just ran into something that I think is unexpected, but I'm not really sure if it is or not. I created a `Process` and noticed that symlinks seem to get resolved. What I was a bit confused about is why, if all the files are internal to the environment/process/digest, can I not use a symlink internally?

Is this a function of the `Process` or the `Digest`?

More specifically, I'm downloading NodeJS as a `.tar.gz` via `ExternalTool` and when I was digging into some bugs, I noticed that the symlinks had been resolved (but internally, they still expect those links to run in JS)

Pants does not support symlinks in Digests (even though the Remote Execution API (REAPI) does support it). <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/10271>

It wouldn’t be too big of a project, but it would require changes to Rust code.

(specifically the `store` crate — <https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/tree/main/src/rust/engine/fs/store>)

(and probably Process as well to support symlink capture)

Ahh, thanks <@U0N6C2Q9F>!

I've worked around in the short term. but I was just very surprised to see that!