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doc: clarify symlink resolution for __filename
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Make it more explicit that symlinks are resolved in `__filename`.

Refs: nodejs#22602 (comment)
PR-URL: nodejs#24587
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
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Trott committed Nov 27, 2018
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* {string}

The file name of the current module. This is the resolved absolute path of the
current module file.
The file name of the current module. This is the current module file's absolute
path with symlinks resolved.

For a main program this is not necessarily the same as the file name used in the
command line.
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