diff --git a/src/sandbox/linux-sandbox-utils.ts b/src/sandbox/linux-sandbox-utils.ts
index b09532eaa..4b22a9557 100644
--- a/src/sandbox/linux-sandbox-utils.ts
+++ b/src/sandbox/linux-sandbox-utils.ts
@@ -2414,11 +2414,14 @@ async function generateFilesystemArgs(
       // We track them in bwrapMountPoints so cleanupBwrapMountPoints() can
       // remove them after the command exits.
       if (!fs.existsSync(normalizedPath)) {
-        // Fix 1 (worktree): If any existing component in the deny path is a
-        // file (not a directory), skip the deny entirely. You can't mkdir
+        // Fix 1 (worktree): If any existing component above the deny path is
+        // a file (not a directory), skip the deny entirely. You can't mkdir
         // under a file, so the deny path can never be created. This handles
-        // git worktrees where .git is a file.
-        if (hasFileAncestor(normalizedPath)) {
+        // git worktrees where .git is a file. Asked of what lies above the
+        // path, not of the path: another sandbox's bubblewrap may have made a
+        // mount point at it since the look above, and a file there is no
+        // reason to leave it unbound.
+        if (hasFileAncestor(path.dirname(normalizedPath))) {
           logForDebugging(
             `[Sandbox Linux] Skipping deny path with file ancestor (cannot create paths under a file): ${normalizedPath}`,
           )
diff --git a/test/sandbox/deny-path-made-meanwhile.test.ts b/test/sandbox/deny-path-made-meanwhile.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..30eb6693a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/sandbox/deny-path-made-meanwhile.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeEach, afterEach, spyOn } from 'bun:test'
+import * as fs from 'fs'
+import {
+  chmodSync,
+  mkdirSync,
+  mkdtempSync,
+  realpathSync,
+  rmSync,
+  writeFileSync,
+} from 'node:fs'
+import { join } from 'node:path'
+import { tmpdir } from 'node:os'
+import {
+  wrapCommandWithSandboxLinux,
+  cleanupBwrapMountPoints,
+} from '../../src/sandbox/linux-sandbox-utils.js'
+import { isLinux } from '../helpers/platform.js'
+import { countMounts } from '../helpers/bwrap-argv.js'
+
+/**
+ * An absent deny path is blocked by a mount point bubblewrap makes on the
+ * host. Two processes wrapping in one project deny the same absent paths, so
+ * one's bubblewrap can make that file between two looks of the other's wrap.
+ */
+describe.if(isLinux)('A deny path made while the wrap is looking', () => {
+  let base: string
+  let area: string
+  const savedCwd = process.cwd()
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    cleanupBwrapMountPoints({ force: true })
+    base = realpathSync(mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'deny-meanwhile-')))
+    area = join(base, 'area')
+    mkdirSync(area)
+    process.chdir(area)
+  })
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    process.chdir(savedCwd)
+    cleanupBwrapMountPoints({ force: true })
+    rmSync(base, { recursive: true, force: true })
+  })
+
+  const wrap = (deny: string): Promise<string> =>
+    wrapCommandWithSandboxLinux({
+      command: 'true',
+      needsNetworkRestriction: false,
+      readConfig: { denyOnly: [] },
+      writeConfig: { allowOnly: [area], denyWithinAllow: [deny] },
+    })
+
+  it('still binds over a path that was absent when asked and is a file a moment later', async () => {
+    const denied = join(area, 'denied.lock')
+    const exists = fs.existsSync
+    let made = false
+    // What another sandbox's bubblewrap does: an empty read-only file.
+    const spy = spyOn(fs, 'existsSync').mockImplementation(((
+      p: fs.PathLike,
+    ) => {
+      const was = exists(p)
+      if (p === denied && !made) {
+        made = true
+        writeFileSync(denied, '')
+        chmodSync(denied, 0o444)
+      }
+      return was
+    }) as typeof fs.existsSync)
+    let wrapped: string
+    try {
+      wrapped = await wrap(denied)
+    } finally {
+      spy.mockRestore()
+    }
+
+    expect(made).toBe(true)
+    expect(countMounts(wrapped, '--ro-bind', '/dev/null', denied)).toBe(1)
+  })
+
+  it('still leaves alone a path beneath a file, which can never be created', async () => {
+    writeFileSync(join(area, '.git'), 'gitdir: elsewhere\n')
+    const denied = join(area, '.git', 'hooks')
+
+    const wrapped = await wrap(denied)
+
+    expect(wrapped).not.toContain(denied)
+  })
+})