fix(atomic): retry a rename Windows refuses for a moment - #1097
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Closes milind-soni#9. Windows refuses a rename onto an existing path while anything else holds a handle to either file, and a virus scanner or the search indexer opening a just-closed file for a few milliseconds is enough. It surfaced as EPERM from `renameSync` in `writeFileAtomic`, and every caller treats a throw there as a failed save — so `Store.saveBots`, `RoutineManager.save` and staged skill writes lost the write. Through an HTTP handler it did not even look like a filesystem error: `POST /api/teams/import` returned 500. EPERM, EACCES and EBUSY are now retried with a fixed backoff — 5, 10, 20, 40, 80 ms, six attempts, ~155 ms worst case. Every other code still throws on the first attempt: busy-waiting on a missing directory or a cross-device rename would hide a real bug behind a delay and fail anyway. Kept synchronous. Every caller is a synchronous save path, and making one of them async is a far larger change than this warrants. `renameWithRetry` takes an injectable `rename` because there is no portable way to make a real filesystem produce a transient EPERM on demand. Verified: server/atomic.test.ts 9 passed, 1 skipped — the 7 existing cases plus 4 new ones covering a transient EPERM succeeding, EACCES/EBUSY treated the same, giving up after six attempts, and ENOENT/EXDEV/EISDIR not being retried at all. The three suites that produced these failures all session — team-backup, routine-requests and skills — now pass 92/92 together. One side effect worth knowing: replacing a file with a directory raises EPERM/EACCES on some platforms, so that failure now takes ~155 ms before throwing. The existing "cleans up the temporary file when replacement fails" test still passes; it is slower, not wrong. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Line 63: Update writeFileAtomic so renameWithRetry is used only on Windows;
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Limit the retry path to Windows.
writeFileAtomic calls renameWithRetry on every platform. On POSIX, a persistent EPERM, EACCES, or EBUSY causes five synchronous Atomics.wait delays totaling 155 ms before the final error is thrown. Gate the retry policy to Windows and call renameSync elsewhere:
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- renameWithRetry(tmp, path);
+ if (process.platform === "win32") {
+ renameWithRetry(tmp, path);
+ } else {
+ renameSync(tmp, path);
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| renameWithRetry(tmp, path); | |
| if (process.platform === "win32") { | |
| renameWithRetry(tmp, path); | |
| } else { | |
| renameSync(tmp, path); | |
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…#1097) Closes milind-soni#9. Windows refuses a rename onto an existing path while anything else holds a handle to either file, and a virus scanner or the search indexer opening a just-closed file for a few milliseconds is enough. It surfaced as EPERM from `renameSync` in `writeFileAtomic`, and every caller treats a throw there as a failed save — so `Store.saveBots`, `RoutineManager.save` and staged skill writes lost the write. Through an HTTP handler it did not even look like a filesystem error: `POST /api/teams/import` returned 500. EPERM, EACCES and EBUSY are now retried with a fixed backoff — 5, 10, 20, 40, 80 ms, six attempts, ~155 ms worst case. Every other code still throws on the first attempt: busy-waiting on a missing directory or a cross-device rename would hide a real bug behind a delay and fail anyway. Kept synchronous. Every caller is a synchronous save path, and making one of them async is a far larger change than this warrants. `renameWithRetry` takes an injectable `rename` because there is no portable way to make a real filesystem produce a transient EPERM on demand. Verified: server/atomic.test.ts 9 passed, 1 skipped — the 7 existing cases plus 4 new ones covering a transient EPERM succeeding, EACCES/EBUSY treated the same, giving up after six attempts, and ENOENT/EXDEV/EISDIR not being retried at all. The three suites that produced these failures all session — team-backup, routine-requests and skills — now pass 92/92 together. One side effect worth knowing: replacing a file with a directory raises EPERM/EACCES on some platforms, so that failure now takes ~155 ms before throwing. The existing "cleans up the temporary file when replacement fails" test still passes; it is slower, not wrong. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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On Windows,
renameSyncinwriteFileAtomiccan throwEPERM(orEACCES/EBUSY) even though the rename is otherwise correct. Windows refuses a rename onto an existing path while anything else still holds a handle to either file, and a virus scanner or the search indexer briefly opening a just-closed file is enough to trigger it. Every caller treats a throw here as a failed save, so a purely transient lock could lose a write — and through an HTTP handler it didn't even look like a filesystem issue (e.g. an import endpoint would just return a 500).This adds
renameWithRetry, which retriesEPERM/EACCES/EBUSYwith a short fixed backoff (5, 10, 20, 40, 80 ms — six attempts, ~155 ms worst case) before giving up. Every other error code still throws immediately: retrying a missing directory or a cross-device rename would just hide a real bug behind a delay and fail anyway.Kept synchronous, since every caller here is a synchronous save path — making one of them async would be a much bigger change than this warrants.
renameis injectable so tests can simulate a transientEPERMwithout needing a real filesystem race.Tests added in
server/atomic.test.tscover: a transientEPERMsucceeding after retries,EACCES/EBUSYhandled the same way, giving up after six attempts, andENOENT/EXDEV/EISDIRnot being retried at all.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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