What are hg-checkexec-something files

[Matt Mackall]

On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 04:00 +0000, hamann.w at t-online.de wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am running some inotify script outside mercurial, and I noticed that sometimes
> changing a tracked file will cause an avalanche of "added" or "changed" hg-checklink-something
> reports. What are these - and where are they created (in one of the source directories,
> or in the private .hg directory)

They are probes of filesystem exec bit and symlink handling. They happen
in the working copy because they're testing the behavior of the working
copy filesystem.

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