checkunknown: audit path before checking if it's a file or link Previously we would lstat the file to see if it was a file or a link before attempting to process it. If the file happened to exist across a symlink, and if that symlink was pointing to a network file system, that check could be very expensive. The new logic audit's the path to avoid symlinks before performing the lstat on the file itself. In our situation, this shaved 10 minutes off of certain hg updates. 300 files * (2 seconds - the network filesystem lookup time)