Greptile P1 on PR #1898: fs.existsSync internally catches all errors and
returns false, so the previous try/catch around it was dead code and the
stated "fail-closed on EACCES" semantics weren't actually delivered. A
file under a directory with no execute permission would read as absent
and bypass the guard.
Swap to fs.statSync with explicit ENOENT detection. Only ENOENT flips
exists to false; every other error code (EACCES, EPERM, ELOOP, etc.)
leaves exists=true so the modification guard is never silently weakened.
Add a new test "allows first-time creation when the parent directory
does not exist yet" that exercises the ENOENT path via a non-existent
parent dir — pins the happy path into the regression suite.
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