hasWindowsPathPrefix (electron/venv-holder-select.ts)

Utilities to detect Hermes venv daemons and external holders on Windows for safe updater handoff.

// Source: https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent | License: MIT | Copyright 2025 Nous Research
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/**
 * venv-holder-select.ts
 *
 * Pure Windows venv-holder selection logic (testable without Electron).
 *
 * The pre-update handoff kills Hermes-OWNED venv daemons (the memory plugin's
 * hindsight daemon) so the updater never races a mapped shim. External
 * holders (a user terminal running `hermes`, unrelated scripts) must NOT be
 * killed — current design reports them via scanVenvBlockers and ABORTS the
 * handoff instead (main.ts releaseBackendLock / applyUpdates).
 */

/** Ordinal case-insensitive prefix check for Windows paths. */
export function hasWindowsPathPrefix(exePath: string, venvScriptsDir: string): boolean {

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