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https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html

Description of the problem

Using Node.js FileHandles you can open a file, get a fs.Stats object from the handle and then close the file.

// first part of the function copied from the close() doc
// https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#filehandleclose

import { open } from 'node:fs/promises';

function processFile(path)
    let filehandle;
    try {
        filehandle = await open(path, 'r');
    } finally {
        await filehandle?.close();
        return;
    }
 
    const fileStat = await filehandle.stat(); //  1
    // do something ...
    await filehandle.close();  // 2
}

Node.js documentation says:

filehandle.stat([options])
    Returns: <Promise> Fulfills with an <fs.Stats> for the file.

filehandle.close()
   Returns: <Promise> Fulfills with undefined upon success.

From these statements its' not clear if both methods can fail, or not, during the execution and in which cases.
Do we need to wrap FH.stat() and FH.close() calls in try-catch blocks?
Or, since the FileHandle has been already opened, they can't fail and it is safe to use them without a try-catch block?

I've also tried replacing the "do something" line with an await setTimeout(10000) in order to delete the opened file during the execution. But, at least on Linux, the deletion (rm command) is delayed until all file descriptors stop using it. So, even in that case both methods don't fail. Same story using chmod and chown...
Is there any platform specific behaviours?