doc: strengthen wording about fs.access() misuse

PR-URL: #34352 Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>
nodejs · Sep 22, 2020 · 7c7d3e3 · 7c7d3e3
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diff --git a/doc/api/fs.md b/doc/api/fs.md
@@ -1124,8 +1124,8 @@ fs.access(file, fs.constants.F_OK | fs.constants.W_OK, (err) => {
 });
 ```
 
-Using `fs.access()` to check for the accessibility of a file before calling
-`fs.open()`, `fs.readFile()` or `fs.writeFile()` is not recommended. Doing
+Do not use `fs.access()` to check for the accessibility of a file before calling
+`fs.open()`, `fs.readFile()` or `fs.writeFile()`. Doing
 so introduces a race condition, since other processes may change the file's
 state between the two calls. Instead, user code should open/read/write the
 file directly and handle the error raised if the file is not accessible.