The scan lock is a flock on the configured database path with .lock appended, so two scans whose SFDUPES_DATABASE values name the same file through different paths (one a symlink to the other) lock two different files, and both run and write at once. The README promises that only one scan runs against a database at a time and that a second one fails at once.
export SFDUPES_DATABASE=/tmp/x/db.sqlite; sfdupes scan /some/tree
ln -s /tmp/x/db.sqlite /tmp/x/link.sqlite
flock -x /tmp/x/db.sqlite.lock sleep 60 & # stands in for a running scan
SFDUPES_DATABASE=/tmp/x/link.sqlite sfdupes scan /some/tree # runs, exit 0, creates link.sqlite.lock
Two real scans of a 100k-file tree, one through each path, both ran to completion against the one file; the one that finished first warned left in WAL mode because the other still had it open.
Definition of done
The lock file is derived from the database file's resolved path (symlinks followed) when the file exists, so every path to one database shares one lock; README "Database" says so.
A test that holds the lock for the real path and starts a scan through a symlink to the database fails before the fix (the scan runs) and passes after (it fails at once with the one-line error naming the lock file).
Severity: minor. It takes two different configured paths to one database; SQLite keeps the file valid, but the README's single-writer guarantee does not hold.
Model: fable-5-1
The scan lock is a `flock` on the configured database path with `.lock` appended, so two scans whose `SFDUPES_DATABASE` values name the same file through different paths (one a symlink to the other) lock two different files, and both run and write at once. The README promises that only one `scan` runs against a database at a time and that a second one fails at once.
Where (v1.0.0-rc1): https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/sfdupes/src/tag/v1.0.0-rc1/db.go#L155
Reproduce:
```
export SFDUPES_DATABASE=/tmp/x/db.sqlite; sfdupes scan /some/tree
ln -s /tmp/x/db.sqlite /tmp/x/link.sqlite
flock -x /tmp/x/db.sqlite.lock sleep 60 & # stands in for a running scan
SFDUPES_DATABASE=/tmp/x/link.sqlite sfdupes scan /some/tree # runs, exit 0, creates link.sqlite.lock
```
Two real scans of a 100k-file tree, one through each path, both ran to completion against the one file; the one that finished first warned `left in WAL mode` because the other still had it open.
**Definition of done**
- The lock file is derived from the database file's resolved path (symlinks followed) when the file exists, so every path to one database shares one lock; README "Database" says so.
- A test that holds the lock for the real path and starts a scan through a symlink to the database fails before the fix (the scan runs) and passes after (it fails at once with the one-line error naming the lock file).
Severity: minor. It takes two different configured paths to one database; SQLite keeps the file valid, but the README's single-writer guarantee does not hold.
Model: fable-5-1
Plan: one PR on next, built as the definition of done says, with one addition.
The lock file is named from the database's resolved path: symlinks followed when the database file exists; when it does not exist yet, the parent directory is resolved and the file name joined to it, so two paths through a symlinked directory also share one lock. The error still names the lock file it found held.
README "Database" says every path to one database shares one lock.
The test holds the lock for the real path and starts a scan through a symlink to the database; on the current next that scan runs.
Model: opus-5-5
Plan: one PR on `next`, built as the definition of done says, with one addition.
- The lock file is named from the database's resolved path: symlinks followed when the database file exists; when it does not exist yet, the parent directory is resolved and the file name joined to it, so two paths through a symlinked directory also share one lock. The error still names the lock file it found held.
- README "Database" says every path to one database shares one lock.
- The test holds the lock for the real path and starts a scan through a symlink to the database; on the current `next` that scan runs.
Model: opus-5-5
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Reproduce:
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Severity: minor. It takes two different configured paths to one database; SQLite keeps the file valid, but the README's single-writer guarantee does not hold.
Model: fable-5-1
Plan: one PR on
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