An AppImage runs the program from a mount that goes away with the image
it came from, so a host held open past an update kept running the old
mount and never noticed the replaced image. The host now reads APPIMAGE
(added to its environment allow-list only when it names an absolute
file; it is a path the host reads about itself and never tells an agent,
so I-2 holds), runs and restarts from that file, and tells a replaced
program by its file's inode, size and last write. Test:
a_replaced_appimage_restarts_the_books (the programs run from one file
while APPIMAGE names another, as in a mount).
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