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37 lines
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# graceful-fs
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graceful-fs functions as a drop-in replacement for the fs module,
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making various improvements.
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The improvements are meant to normalize behavior across different
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platforms and environments, and to make filesystem access more
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resilient to errors.
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## Improvements over [fs module](http://api.nodejs.org/fs.html)
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graceful-fs:
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* Queues up `open` and `readdir` calls, and retries them once
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something closes if there is an EMFILE error from too many file
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descriptors.
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* fixes `lchmod` for Node versions prior to 0.6.2.
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* implements `fs.lutimes` if possible. Otherwise it becomes a noop.
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* ignores `EINVAL` and `EPERM` errors in `chown`, `fchown` or
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`lchown` if the user isn't root.
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* makes `lchmod` and `lchown` become noops, if not available.
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* retries reading a file if `read` results in EAGAIN error.
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On Windows, it retries renaming a file for up to one second if `EACCESS`
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or `EPERM` error occurs, likely because antivirus software has locked
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the directory.
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## USAGE
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```javascript
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// use just like fs
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var fs = require('graceful-fs')
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// now go and do stuff with it...
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fs.readFileSync('some-file-or-whatever')
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```
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