From 2d005fcc1c7805cee15a2a16e37fedce854658f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: imSp4rky <george+slight@slight.me>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:24:55 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix(api): guard two more Windows errno 13 paths in the serve
 layer

---
 unshackle/core/api/download_manager.py | 20 +++++++++++++-------
 unshackle/core/api/handlers.py         |  4 +++-
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/unshackle/core/api/download_manager.py b/unshackle/core/api/download_manager.py
index cbdf1c76..bcda3e73 100644
--- a/unshackle/core/api/download_manager.py
+++ b/unshackle/core/api/download_manager.py
@@ -1073,13 +1073,19 @@ class DownloadQueueManager:
                     log.debug(f"Worker stderr for job {job.job_id}: {safe_stderr}")
 
             result_data: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None
-            try:
-                with open(result_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as handle:
-                    result_data = json.load(handle)
-            except FileNotFoundError:
-                log.error(f"Result file missing for job {job.job_id}")
-            except json.JSONDecodeError as exc:
-                log.error(f"Failed to parse worker result for job {job.job_id}: {exc}")
+            for attempt in range(5):
+                try:
+                    with open(result_path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as handle:
+                        result_data = json.load(handle)
+                except FileNotFoundError:
+                    log.error(f"Result file missing for job {job.job_id}")
+                except PermissionError as exc:
+                    log.debug(f"Result file for job {job.job_id} denied, retrying: {exc}")
+                    await asyncio.sleep(0.02 * (attempt + 1))
+                    continue
+                except json.JSONDecodeError as exc:
+                    log.error(f"Failed to parse worker result for job {job.job_id}: {exc}")
+                break
 
             if returncode != 0:
                 message = result_data.get("message") if result_data else "unknown error"
diff --git a/unshackle/core/api/handlers.py b/unshackle/core/api/handlers.py
index f45ef93b..de4115fe 100644
--- a/unshackle/core/api/handlers.py
+++ b/unshackle/core/api/handlers.py
@@ -1861,8 +1861,10 @@ def create_service_instance(
             cookies.load(ignore_discard=True, ignore_expires=True)
         finally:
             import os
+            from contextlib import suppress
 
-            os.unlink(tmp_path)
+            with suppress(OSError):
+                os.unlink(tmp_path)
     else:
         cookies = dl.get_cookie_jar(normalized_service, profile)