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What failed

test_live_update.py::TestLiveUpdate::test_an_update_during_page_load_is_not_absorbed fails now and then on the Windows cells. The failure has two parts: Page.goto: Timeout 30000ms exceeded, then PermissionError: [Errno 13] on the session page, raised from Page.close at teardown.

The error comes from the test's own code. The test holds the page's navigation in a route handler and polls the session page until the watch has rewritten it. That read is not guarded, and it races the watch's atomic_write_text (a temp file, then os.replace). On Windows, an open that lands during the swap raises PermissionError, which POSIX never does. When the read raises:

• the handler raises with it, and the held route is never fulfilled;
• Page.goto waits out its 30 s timeout;
• Playwright re-raises the handler's error from Page.close.

Both CI tracebacks on record point at that read in hold.

The product code already handles this transient on both sides:

• the writer retries os.replace (utils._replace_with_retry);
• the live server opens and pins the file with the same retry (ArchiveServer's _pin_file).

The test's read was the only unguarded one.

The change (test only)

• Red: the test makes its own first read of the page raise PermissionError on every platform. The read runs on the test's thread only; the watch conversion and the server read as usual. The test then asserts that this injected error was actually reached. On Linux this reproduces the CI failure exactly: goto timeout plus the teardown error.
• Fix: the poll treats a PermissionError as "not rewritten yet" and keeps polling within its 20 s deadline.
• The handler now fulfils the held route in a finally. Any future error in the handler then fails the test at once and names itself, instead of a 30 s goto timeout followed by a teardown error.

The injection stays in the test permanently, so every platform runs the Windows path.

Verification

• At the red commit, the test fails with the CI signature: 1 failed, 1 error in 31.48s.
• With the fix, it passes in 1.58 s.
• With the fix's except PermissionError disabled, it fails in 1.30 s with the PermissionError named and no timeout. That shows the finally doing its job.
• uv run pytest test/test_live_update.py -n0 -m browser: 25 passed.
• ruff, pyright and ty are clean.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Tests
  • Expanded coverage for page loading during a temporary file-access conflict. The test now verifies that polling encounters the conflict, the browser can receive stale page content during the rewrite, and navigation is released even if the test encounters an error.

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Walkthrough

The live-update page-load race test now injects a one-time PermissionError during a page read. It retries while waiting for the rewritten page and checks that the error occurred and stale markup was served.

Changes: Live-update page-load race test

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Inject and verify a read failure test/test_live_update.py	The test patches Path.read_text to raise a one-time PermissionError on the target page. It retries while waiting for the rewritten page, releases the held navigation in a finally block, and asserts that the injected failure occurred and stale markup was served.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: daaain

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 4fe92

The test change has no identified merge-blocking issue; it is ready for normal checks.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title identifies the live-update test change and the Windows file-swap read failure it handles.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Resolution

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