Hold a lock so a second scan fails at once (closes #53)
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scan takes an exclusive flock(2) on a lock file beside the database
(its path with .lock appended) before it walks anything or opens the
database, and holds it until it returns. A second scan against the
same database fails at once with a one-line error naming the lock
file and exits 1. report and trees never take the lock. The lock ends
with the process, so a fatal error or an interrupt releases it; the
file is never deleted. golang.org/x/sys becomes a direct dependency.

The README smoke test now keeps the database outside the scanned
tree, where its empty lock file would have joined the empty-file
group.

Model: opus-5-5
This commit was merged in pull request #75.
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2026-10-04 02:30:21 +02:00
parent 01ff3bb5f0
commit 705c8729ca
6 changed files with 180 additions and 15 deletions
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@@ -412,6 +412,95 @@ func TestRunReportsNeedOnlyReadAccess(t *testing.T) {
}
}
// holdScanLock takes the lock on the database at path, as a running
// scan does, and holds it until the test ends. It fails the test when
// the lock is already held.
func holdScanLock(t *testing.T, path string) {
t.Helper()
lock, err := lockScanDatabase(path)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("lock %s: %v", path, err)
}
t.Cleanup(func() { _ = lock.Close() })
}
func TestRunSecondScanFails(t *testing.T) {
// README §Database: while one scan holds the lock, a second scan
// fails at once, naming the lock file, without creating the
// database.
path := testDBPath(t)
t.Setenv(databaseEnv, path)
holdScanLock(t, path)
var stdout, stderr bytes.Buffer
code := run([]string{cmdScan, t.TempDir()}, &stdout, &stderr)
if code != exitFatal {
t.Errorf("run(scan) = %d, want %d", code, exitFatal)
}
want := "sfdupes: another scan is running (lock held on " +
path + ".lock)\n"
if got := stderr.String(); got != want {
t.Errorf("stderr = %q, want %q", got, want)
}
if got := stdout.String(); got != "" {
t.Errorf("stdout = %q, want nothing (data only)", got)
}
_, err := os.Stat(path)
if !errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
t.Errorf("stat %s = %v, want the database not created", path, err)
}
}
func TestRunScanReleasesLock(t *testing.T) {
// README §Database: a scan releases the lock however it ends.
t.Run("success", func(t *testing.T) {
path := testDBPath(t)
t.Setenv(databaseEnv, path)
scanFixture(t)
holdScanLock(t, path)
})
t.Run("fatal error", func(t *testing.T) {
path := brokenDatabase(t)
t.Setenv(databaseEnv, path)
code := run([]string{cmdScan, t.TempDir()}, io.Discard, io.Discard)
if code != exitFatal {
t.Fatalf("run(scan) = %d, want %d", code, exitFatal)
}
holdScanLock(t, path)
})
}
func TestRunReportsDuringScan(t *testing.T) {
// README §Database: report and trees never take the lock, so they
// run while a scan holds it.
path := testDBPath(t)
t.Setenv(databaseEnv, path)
scanFixture(t)
holdScanLock(t, path)
for _, name := range []string{cmdReport, cmdTrees} {
var stderr bytes.Buffer
code := run([]string{name}, io.Discard, &stderr)
if code != exitOK {
t.Errorf("run(%s) = %d, want %d; stderr: %s",
name, code, exitOK, stderr.String())
}
}
}
func TestRunStdoutClosedIsFatal(t *testing.T) {
// README §Error handling: a stdout write failure exits 1, reported
// in one line on stderr.