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vaultik/internal/pidlock/pidlock.go
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Make the process-wide lock atomic with flock (closes #227)
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
2026-10-07 03:13:09 +00:00

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// Package pidlock provides process-level locking using PID files.
// It prevents multiple instances of vaultik from running simultaneously,
// which would cause database locking conflicts.
package pidlock
import (
"errors"
"fmt"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"strconv"
"strings"
"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
)
// ErrAlreadyRunning indicates another vaultik instance is running.
var ErrAlreadyRunning = errors.New("another vaultik instance is already running")
// Lock represents an acquired PID lock: an flock(2) on the PID file,
// held while the file stays open. The kernel drops it when the process
// exits, however it exits, so a crashed run never leaves the lock held.
type Lock struct {
file *os.File
}
const (
// lockDirPerm is the mode for the lock directory (owner-only).
lockDirPerm = 0o700
// pidFilePerm is the mode for the PID file (owner-only).
pidFilePerm = 0o600
)
// Acquire attempts to acquire a PID lock in the specified directory.
// If another process holds the lock, it returns ErrAlreadyRunning with
// that process's PID. On success, it writes the current PID to the lock
// file and returns a Lock that must be released with Release().
func Acquire(lockDir string) (*Lock, error) {
// Ensure lock directory exists
err := os.MkdirAll(lockDir, lockDirPerm)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("creating lock directory: %w", err)
}
lockPath := filepath.Join(lockDir, "vaultik.pid")
// No O_TRUNC: the file may hold the PID of the process that has the
// lock, which the error below reports.
file, err := os.OpenFile( //nolint:gosec // G304: path is our own lock file
lockPath, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE, pidFilePerm)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("opening PID file: %w", err)
}
err = unix.Flock(int(file.Fd()), unix.LOCK_EX|unix.LOCK_NB)
if err != nil {
_ = file.Close()
if errors.Is(err, unix.EWOULDBLOCK) {
return nil, alreadyRunningError(lockPath)
}
return nil, fmt.Errorf("locking PID file: %w", err)
}
err = writePID(file)
if err != nil {
_ = file.Close()
return nil, err
}
return &Lock{file: file}, nil
}
// Release empties the PID file and closes it, which drops the lock.
// It is safe to call Release multiple times.
func (l *Lock) Release() error {
if l == nil || l.file == nil {
return nil
}
file := l.file
l.file = nil
// Do not remove the file here. A process that opened it a moment
// earlier could then lock the removed file while another creates and
// locks a new one, and both would run.
truncateErr := file.Truncate(0)
closeErr := file.Close()
return errors.Join(truncateErr, closeErr)
}
// writePID replaces the contents of the locked PID file with the current
// PID.
func writePID(file *os.File) error {
err := file.Truncate(0)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("truncating PID file: %w", err)
}
_, err = file.WriteAt([]byte(strconv.Itoa(os.Getpid())), 0)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("writing PID file: %w", err)
}
return nil
}
// alreadyRunningError reports that another process holds the lock,
// naming its PID when the file holds one. The holder writes its PID just
// after it locks, so the file can briefly be empty.
func alreadyRunningError(lockPath string) error {
pid, err := readPIDFile(lockPath)
if err != nil {
return ErrAlreadyRunning
}
return fmt.Errorf("%w (PID %d)", ErrAlreadyRunning, pid)
}
// readPIDFile reads and parses the PID from a lock file.
func readPIDFile(path string) (int, error) {
data, err := os.ReadFile(path) //nolint:gosec // G304: path is our own lock file
if err != nil {
return 0, err
}
pid, err := strconv.Atoi(strings.TrimSpace(string(data)))
if err != nil {
return 0, fmt.Errorf("parsing PID: %w", err)
}
return pid, nil
}