Finding · gemini-cli
Policy File Resilience: EBUSY Fallback and TOML Recovery
What Changed
Enhanced policy file persistence with EBUSY/EXDEV fallback mechanism and TOML parse recovery. When atomic rename fails on certain mount configs, falls back to copy-then-unlink. If policy file becomes corrupted with syntax errors, automatically backs up malformed file with .bak extension and recovers from scratch.
Operator Implication
Prevents policy update failures in cross-device mount scenarios common in containerized environments. Automatic corrupted file recovery eliminates manual intervention for syntax errors. Improves resilience of configuration persistence layer.
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Run: 2026-06-03-weekly-digest-2026-05-28_2026-06-03-frontier-v0
Finding ID: 2026-06-03-gemini-cli-policy-resilience
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