Lock the state directory and write vault files atomically (closes #34)
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Each command that changes the state directory holds one lock: flock(2)
on `lock` in the state directory, dropped by the kernel if the process
dies, or a process-wide mutex on the in-memory test filesystem. It
covers the state directory, not each vault, because `currentvault`,
`vault create` and cross-vault moves span vaults, and a lock file in a
vault would be deleted by `vault remove` under a waiting command.

Files go through `secret.WriteFileAtomic`; versions, new secrets and
cross-vault copies are built in a temporary directory and renamed into
place; removals rename out of the way first. Left for later: replacing
an unlocker (#71) and deleting
what an interrupted command leaves under a `.tmp-` name
(#75).

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@@ -25,6 +25,34 @@ Bring the repo into policy compliance in one commit:
# Completed Steps
- 2026-10-03: Commands that change the state directory hold one lock
(`flock` on `lock` in the state directory; a mutex on the in-memory
test filesystem), so concurrent commands no longer lose versions or
race on the current pointers. Every file is written through
`secret.WriteFileAtomic` (temporary file, sync, rename), so no file
is ever half-written and `current`, `currentvault` and
`current-unlocker` never go missing. New versions, new secrets and
cross-vault copies are built in a temporary directory and renamed
into place, and removals rename out of the way first, so a version
or secret is never half-added and never half-removed. An
interrupted command can still leave:
- a broken unlocker, when it was replacing one: an unlocker added
under the directory name of an existing one is rewritten file by
file. That happens to a passphrase unlocker added to a vault that
has one, and to a PGP, keychain or Secure Enclave unlocker added
on the same host and day as another of its type
(https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/71);
- from `vault create` stopped at the passphrase prompt, a new vault
with no unlocker that is already the current vault; from `init`
stopped there, the default vault with no unlocker;
- from an unlocker add stopped before its metadata is written, a
directory that `unlocker list` warns about and `unlocker rm`
cannot remove;
- data under a `.tmp-` name in the state directory: a secret or
version being added, or the secret, version, unlocker or vault
being removed, encrypted keys included. Nothing deletes it; it
must be deleted by hand
(https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/secret/issues/75).
- 2026-10-03: Every command that builds a path from a secret name
checks the name first with `vault.ValidateSecretName` and touches
nothing when it is invalid: `rm`, `mv` (both names, within a vault
@@ -105,8 +133,6 @@ Bring the repo into policy compliance in one commit:
version.go:155); age secret key held in a plain string in
cli/crypto.go:86,91,113; private keys exposed via buffer.Bytes()
to GPGEncryptFunc and EncryptWithPassphrase.
- Race conditions: no file locking in vault/secrets.go:142-176;
non-atomic writes can leave the vault inconsistent.
- Input validation: no maximum secret size (DoS).
- Timing attacks: bytes.Equal passphrase compare (cli/init.go:
209-216); non-constant-time public key compare (vault.go:95-100).