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graceful-fs
graceful-fs functions as a drop-in replacement for the fs module, making various improvements.
The improvements are meant to normalize behavior across different platforms and environments, and to make filesystem access more resilient to errors.
Improvements over fs module
graceful-fs:
- keeps track of how many file descriptors are open, and by default limits this to 1024. Any further requests to open a file are put in a queue until new slots become available. If 1024 turns out to be too much, it decreases the limit further.
- fixes
lchmod
for Node versions prior to 0.6.2. - implements
fs.lutimes
if possible. Otherwise it becomes a noop. - ignores
EINVAL
andEPERM
errors inchown
,fchown
orlchown
if the user isn't root. - makes
lchmod
andlchown
become noops, if not available. - retries reading a file if
read
results in EAGAIN error.
On Windows, it retries renaming a file for up to one second if EACCESS
or EPERM
error occurs, likely because antivirus software has locked
the directory.
Configuration
The maximum number of open file descriptors that graceful-fs manages may
be adjusted by setting fs.MAX_OPEN
to a different number. The default
is 1024.