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Claude Code v2.1.229 ·

Windows file watching retries a permission error before giving up

On Windows you get fewer spurious file-watch errors when a file is briefly locked.

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What

File watchers now handle an EPERM error on Windows by trying to open the file for reading before reporting a failure, which stops spurious watch errors on files Windows briefly locks.

Evidence

l.close.bind(l)

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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