deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness · error · Error

SetFileSecurityW ${code} (Win32 ${win32Code}): ${path}

Error message

SetFileSecurityW ${code} (Win32 ${win32Code}): ${path}

What it means

Error "SetFileSecurityW ${code} (Win32 ${win32Code}): ${path}" thrown in deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness.

Source

Thrown at packages/fs/fs-local/src/win32.ts:113

  const descriptor = Buffer.alloc(needed[0])
  if (api.getFileSecurityW(nativePath, DACL_SECURITY_INFORMATION, descriptor, descriptor.length, needed) === 0) {
    throw win32Error('GetFileSecurityW', api.getLastError(), path)
  }
  return descriptor.subarray(0, needed[0])
}

/**
 * Copy an existing file's DACL onto another file and protect it from staging-parent inheritance.
 * The destination must still be empty when confidentiality depends on this call.
 * @param source - existing file whose DACL is copied.
 * @param destination - existing file that receives the protected DACL.
 */
export async function copyFileDaclWin32(source: string, destination: string): Promise<void> {
  const descriptor = await readFileDaclWin32(source)
  const api = await win32()
  const information = (DACL_SECURITY_INFORMATION | PROTECTED_DACL_SECURITY_INFORMATION) >>> 0
  if (api.setFileSecurityW(toNamespacedPath(destination), information, descriptor) === 0) {
    throw win32Error('SetFileSecurityW', api.getLastError(), destination)
  }
}

/**
 * Replace a Windows file while preserving the replaced file's ACL and other replace metadata.
 * @param replaced - existing destination file.
 * @param replacement - closed staging file on the same volume.
 */
export async function replaceFileWin32(replaced: string, replacement: string): Promise<void> {
  const api = await win32()
  if (api.replaceFileW(
    toNamespacedPath(replaced),
    toNamespacedPath(replacement),
    null,
    0,
    null,
    null,
  ) === 0) {

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Solutions

1. Run elevated or adjust the file DACL; check the Win32 error code for access denied or an invalid descriptor.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/fs/fs-local/src/win32.ts:113 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness@b150a551b8 (2026-08-24). Data as JSON: /api/errors/a14385300de65f3f. Report an issue: GitHub.