{"version":"2.1.229","anchor":"windows-file-watching-retries-a-permission-error-before-givi","canonical_anchor":"windows-file-watching-retries-a-permission-error-before-givi","heading":"Windows file watching retries a permission error before giving up","tier":"notice","area":"Windows","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.229\/e\/windows-file-watching-retries-a-permission-error-before-givi","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.229","markdown":"### Windows file watching retries a permission error before giving up\n\nOn Windows you get fewer spurious file-watch errors when a file is briefly locked.\n\n**What**\n\nFile 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.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`l.close.bind(l)`\n\n- Area: Windows\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}