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opened on Nov 18, 2020

node/deps/uv/src/win/fs.c

Line 2068 in 606df7c

if (CopyFileW(req->file.pathw, req->fs.info.new_pathw, overwrite) != 0) {

It looks like copyFile is using the older CopyFile API instead of taking advantage of the async awaitable CopyFileEx API

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