Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Good catch. I think this would save a certain number of unnecessary
> stat() calls.
> 
> But it does change semantics, so we can't fix this in 2.4. In 2.5, we
> should warn hook authors that this might affect them.
> 
> The PEP ought to be updated to clarify this.

Okay. The patch fixing this is at #921466. I'll see what I can do about
the PEP.

Georg

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