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Missing `is_symlink` check?

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
operating-systems

Research direction

Start with src/lib.rs around lines 90-97 and compare the referenced nushell implementation in crates/nu-completion/src/command.rs around lines 73-86. Determine whether symlink handling is intentional for this utility and check the existing tests for the expected behavior. Done means the behavior is clarified and, if an omission is confirmed, covered by an appropriate test.

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Description

This is is_executable of is_executable: https://github.com/fitzgen/is_executable/blob/master/src/lib.rs#L90-L97
This is is_executable of nushell: https://github.com/nushell/nushell/blob/b39dda05500d92b627685b8251bfe416dc621c08/crates/nu-completion/src/command.rs#L73-L86
If you compare them you will notice that nushell has an additional is_symlink() check but is_executable's is_executable does not. Is this intentional or is there potentially an unintended omission?

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