Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
In DevelopmentKind: in v2.1.234,
In DevelopmentSection of the release
The relaxed rename check exists but the retry loop never reaches it.
What
The file-rename helpers used to stop retrying whenever the destination file already existed; they now stop only when it exists and is not writable by its owner. The retry loop that decides whether to reach this check always answers no, so nothing changes in practice.
Details
Applies to both the async and synchronous rename paths; the synchronous loop previously lacked the check entirely.
The existence test switched to one that does not follow symlinks and tests the owner-write permission bit.
Evidence
renameSync
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
