[igrunert]

Ah yeah, I see Firefox ran into that and added retries:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/11/improving-firefox-stabilit...

Seems like a worthwhile change, though I'm not sure when I'll get around to it.

[account42]

This is something you also need to do for other Win32 APIs, e.g. file write access may be temporarily blocked by anti-virus programs or whatever and not handling that makes unhappy users.