Artem V. Navrotskiy 0af88e584c cmd/gofmt: correctly truncate symlinks instead of buggy mangling
Currenty `go fmt` does not truncate the symlinked file, as it compares
the size of the recorded data not with the real file size, but with
the symlink reference path length.

Fixes #79735

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GitHub-Pull-Request: golang/go#79774
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