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Claude Code v2.1.248

Lock contention now tells the caller when to retry

Under the hood
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Internals

A blocked writer lock now reports a real retry time instead of just a busy marker.

What

When Claude Code fails to take a writer lock because another process holds it, the result now includes a computed retry time rather than just a "someone else has it" marker, so callers can back off to a real timestamp instead of guessing.

Evidence

return { kind: "other_writer", retryAtMs:

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

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