google / google/wireit

Consider setting COPYFILE_FICLONE when copying output files

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Description

This makes makes a copy-on-write clone if the filesystem supports it, and does a normal copy otherwise. On many filesystems this is about as cheap as making a hardlink, but if something else does change the file later it doesn't change the file in the cache.

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