node-graceful-fs silently fails on windows

[aeneasr]

This is an upstream issue of an upstream issue (node-fs-extra) of this original comment in electron-packager. That escalated quickly (see what I did there?) :D

electron-packager is a cli helper that packages an electron app. It does so by copying a node app (including node_modules) to the temp directory. This step uses fs.copy (from node-fs-extra) which silently fails.

In particular, apparently, at some point it simply stops without throwing an error, nor calling the callback:

fs.copy(opts.dir, appPath, {filter: ignore.userIgnoreFilter(opts), dereference: shouldDeref}, cb)

In node-fs-extra, I traced the issue back to this project, because I am 85% confident that the issue arises from calls like these do not result in a callback or quit unexpectedly.

I'd be glad to help you identify root cause of this issue. Note that this only happens on windows. On OSX, everything works fine.

[aeneasr]

The issue does apparently no longer occur on node 7.6.0

[coreyfarrell]

Since the last comment indicates this issue was resolved by a node.js update I'm closing. If the issue reappears please open a new issue.