{"version":"2.1.301","anchor":"windows-task-output-closing-line-retries-on-ebusy","canonical_anchor":"windows-task-output-closing-line-retries-on-ebusy","heading":"Windows: task output keeps retrying when its file is busy","tier":"notice","area":"Elsewhere","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.301\/e\/windows-task-output-closing-line-retries-on-ebusy","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.301","markdown":"### Windows: task output keeps retrying when its file is busy\n\nOn Windows, Claude Code now keeps trying for a set time to write a task's final output line when the file is busy\n\n**What**\n\nWhen Claude Code runs a task, it writes the task's output to a file and finishes with a closing line. On Windows, another program can hold that file busy (an error called EBUSY). Claude Code now keeps retrying the closing line for a set amount of time instead of trying once more and giving up.\n\nIt shows a warning while it waits, and another if the line still could not be written when time runs out.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis avoids losing the line that marks a task as finished on Windows.\n\n- Area: Elsewhere\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}