Make the process-wide lock atomic with flock (closes #227)
check / check (push) Waiting to run

Acquire read vaultik.pid, checked whether that PID was alive, then
wrote its own, so two writers started together could both pass the
check and both run. The lock is now an flock on vaultik.pid, held
while the file stays open; the kernel drops it when the process exits,
so the stale-PID check is gone.

Release empties the file instead of deleting it. Deleting it would let
a process that opened the old file a moment earlier lock it while
another creates and locks a new one.

The new concurrent test fails against the old code only when the race
is hit, not on every run; against the fix it cannot admit two callers.

Model: opus-5-5
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2026-10-07 03:13:09 +00:00
parent cdc60c4dfa
commit dcd3107b7b
3 changed files with 140 additions and 55 deletions
+63 -3
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@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
"os"
"path/filepath"
"strconv"
"sync"
"testing"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
@@ -33,9 +34,10 @@ func TestAcquireAndRelease(t *testing.T) {
err = lock.Release()
require.NoError(t, err)
// Verify PID file is gone
_, err = os.Stat(pidPath)
assert.True(t, os.IsNotExist(err))
// Verify PID file is empty
data, err = os.ReadFile(pidPath) //nolint:gosec // G304: test's own temp file
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Empty(t, data)
}
func TestAcquireBlocksSecondInstance(t *testing.T) {
@@ -55,6 +57,64 @@ func TestAcquireBlocksSecondInstance(t *testing.T) {
lock2, err := pidlock.Acquire(tmpDir)
require.ErrorIs(t, err, pidlock.ErrAlreadyRunning)
assert.Nil(t, lock2)
// Once the first lock is released, the next Acquire succeeds
require.NoError(t, lock1.Release())
lock3, err := pidlock.Acquire(tmpDir)
require.NoError(t, err)
require.NoError(t, lock3.Release())
}
// TestConcurrentAcquireAdmitsOne starts many Acquire calls at the same
// moment, as two cron entries firing together would, and checks that
// exactly one of them gets the lock.
func TestConcurrentAcquireAdmitsOne(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
const callers = 50
tmpDir := t.TempDir()
start := make(chan struct{})
var (
mu sync.Mutex
acquired []*pidlock.Lock
failures []error
wg sync.WaitGroup
)
for range callers {
wg.Go(func() {
<-start
lock, err := pidlock.Acquire(tmpDir)
mu.Lock()
defer mu.Unlock()
if err != nil {
failures = append(failures, err)
return
}
acquired = append(acquired, lock)
})
}
close(start)
wg.Wait()
for _, lock := range acquired {
require.NoError(t, lock.Release())
}
assert.Len(t, acquired, 1, "exactly one caller should hold the lock")
for _, err := range failures {
require.ErrorIs(t, err, pidlock.ErrAlreadyRunning)
}
}
func TestAcquireWithStaleLock(t *testing.T) {