Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ArtifactsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.251,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
With the confined-evaluation variable set, the publish tool checks the main file path and every entry in its file list for hard links and refuses to publish any of them, as it does for sources outside the run's readable set.
Details
The check is on link count greater than one.
The refusal message reads it is a hard link, which an evaluation run does not publish.
Evidence
it is a hard link, which an evaluation run does not publish
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.