From 3edac64036eb6666aa177c7ec502c36d2a7379fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eason Liang <136036952+easonLiangWorldedtech@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 20:02:04 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] unit 1 of the #1914 split (6 files, whole-file module cut)
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.../safeWriteText.integration.spec.ts | 67 +
.../__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts | 1676 +++++++++++++++++
src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts | 865 +++++++++
.../__tests__/fileLock.canonicalKey.spec.ts | 67 +
src/utils/__tests__/fileLock.spec.ts | 169 ++
src/utils/fileLock.ts | 98 +-
6 files changed, 2936 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.integration.spec.ts
create mode 100644 src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts
create mode 100644 src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts
create mode 100644 src/utils/__tests__/fileLock.canonicalKey.spec.ts
create mode 100644 src/utils/__tests__/fileLock.spec.ts
diff --git a/src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.integration.spec.ts b/src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.integration.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4fc5bb2647
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+++ b/src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.integration.spec.ts
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+import * as fs from "fs/promises"
+import * as os from "os"
+import * as path from "path"
+
+import { safeWriteText } from "../safeWriteText"
+
+// No fs mocks in this file: the point is to assert what a real filesystem ends up
+// holding after a publish attempt, which the mocked spec cannot show. The failure is
+// provoked with real filesystem semantics rather than with a stubbed call.
+describe("safeWriteText against a real filesystem", () => {
+ let dir: string
+
+ beforeEach(async () => {
+ dir = await fs.mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "safe-write-text-int-"))
+ })
+
+ afterEach(async () => {
+ await fs.rm(dir, { recursive: true, force: true })
+ })
+
+ it("publishes the new bytes and leaves no staging or backup residue", async () => {
+ const targetPath = path.join(dir, "target.txt")
+ await fs.writeFile(targetPath, "old bytes")
+
+ // No platform override: the real platform's own durability and ACL steps run, and this
+ // case is the successful restore. A failed restore is best-effort: it is logged and
+ // the publish still resolves after the commit rename, so the residue assertions
+ // below hold whichever way icacls went on the machine running the test.
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "new bytes", { backup: true })
+
+ expect(await fs.readFile(targetPath, "utf8")).toBe("new bytes")
+ expect(await fs.readdir(dir)).toEqual(["target.txt"])
+ })
+
+ it("leaves the target bytes untouched when the commit cannot replace it", async () => {
+ // A regular file cannot be renamed over a directory, so the backup copy and
+ // the commit both fail on a real filesystem with no mocking at all.
+ const targetPath = path.join(dir, "target-dir")
+ await fs.mkdir(targetPath)
+ const inside = path.join(targetPath, "payload.txt")
+ await fs.writeFile(inside, "original bytes")
+
+ await expect(safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", { backup: true })).rejects.toThrow()
+
+ // The directory and its content are exactly as they were, and no backup copy
+ // or staging directory was left behind next to them.
+ expect(await fs.readFile(inside, "utf8")).toBe("original bytes")
+ expect(await fs.readdir(dir)).toEqual(["target-dir"])
+ })
+
+ it("cleans up the staging file when the commit rename itself fails", async () => {
+ // With backup:false the backup step is skipped, so this is the only shape of
+ // this scenario that reaches Step 4: the rename of the staging FILE over the
+ // target DIRECTORY fails (EISDIR / ENOTDIR / EPERM depending on platform), and
+ // the cleanup must remove the staging file. The backup:true case above bails
+ // out in the backup step and never exercises the commit-failure path.
+ const targetPath = path.join(dir, "target-dir")
+ await fs.mkdir(targetPath)
+ const inside = path.join(targetPath, "payload.txt")
+ await fs.writeFile(inside, "original bytes")
+
+ await expect(safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", { backup: false })).rejects.toThrow()
+
+ expect(await fs.readFile(inside, "utf8")).toBe("original bytes")
+ expect(await fs.readdir(dir)).toEqual(["target-dir"])
+ })
+})
diff --git a/src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts b/src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..14b9c9ac9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,1676 @@
+import * as fs from "fs/promises"
+import type { BigIntStats } from "fs"
+import * as fsSync from "fs"
+import { execFile } from "child_process"
+import type { ChildProcess } from "child_process"
+import * as path from "path"
+
+import {
+ PostCommitDurabilityError,
+ resolveLockKey,
+ safeWriteText,
+ StagingPathError,
+ TargetExistsError,
+ UnsupportedFilesystemError,
+ TargetMovedError,
+ AncestorReplacedError,
+ OrphanedBackupError,
+ OrphanedPublishedBackupError,
+} from "../safeWriteText"
+
+// Full mock for fs/promises — all methods are vi.fn() stubs
+vi.mock("fs/promises", () => ({
+ mkdir: vi.fn(),
+ access: vi.fn(),
+ rename: vi.fn(),
+ link: vi.fn(),
+ copyFile: vi.fn(),
+ chmod: vi.fn(),
+ unlink: vi.fn(),
+ rmdir: vi.fn(),
+ realpath: vi.fn(),
+ stat: vi.fn(),
+ lstat: vi.fn(),
+ readlink: vi.fn(),
+}))
+
+// Full mock for fs — all sync methods are vi.fn() stubs. Stats is a bare
+// class stub so tests can build minimal Stats stand-ins via its prototype.
+vi.mock("fs", () => ({
+ // Mirrors Node's value; the no-replace fallback passes it to copyFile.
+ constants: { COPYFILE_EXCL: 1 },
+ openSync: vi.fn(),
+ writeSync: vi.fn(),
+ closeSync: vi.fn(),
+ mkdirSync: vi.fn(),
+ fsyncSync: vi.fn(),
+ chmodSync: vi.fn(),
+ fchmodSync: vi.fn(),
+ statSync: vi.fn(),
+ Stats: class Stats {},
+}))
+
+// Mock child_process.execFile (callback-based — must invoke callback to resolve)
+vi.mock("child_process", () => ({
+ execFile: vi.fn((cmd, args, opts, cb) => {
+ if (typeof cb === "function") cb(null)
+ }),
+}))
+
+// Minimal stand-in for the ChildProcess that callback-form execFile returns.
+const fakeChild = { kill: () => true } as unknown as ChildProcess
+
+// Helper that mirrors safeWriteText's path resolution exactly
+function _resolvedTarget(filePath: string): string {
+ return path.resolve(filePath)
+}
+function _dirPath(filePath: string): string {
+ return path.dirname(_resolvedTarget(filePath))
+}
+// Minimal Stats stand-in: the SUT only reads `.mode` from it.
+// Async lstat stand-in: the SUT only asks whether the path is a link or a file.
+// Built on the Stats prototype so the mock value still satisfies fsSync.Stats.
+function _fileStats(isLink: boolean): fsSync.Stats {
+ const s = Object.create(fsSync.Stats.prototype) as fsSync.Stats
+ s.isSymbolicLink = () => isLink
+ s.isFile = () => !isLink
+ return s
+}
+
+function mockDefaults(): void {
+ vi.resetAllMocks()
+ // After resetAllMocks, vi.fn() returns undefined — restore promise defaults.
+ vi.mocked(fs.mkdir).mockResolvedValue(undefined)
+ vi.mocked(fs.access).mockResolvedValue(undefined)
+ vi.mocked(fs.rename).mockResolvedValue(undefined)
+ vi.mocked(fs.link).mockResolvedValue(undefined)
+ vi.mocked(fs.unlink).mockResolvedValue(undefined)
+ vi.mocked(fs.rmdir).mockResolvedValue(undefined)
+ // Existing-target default: a regular 0o644 file.
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.statSync).mockReturnValue(_stats(0o644))
+ // Staged-file default: a regular file, not a link, so a caller-supplied
+ // tempPath passes the location and file-type check by default.
+ vi.mocked(fs.lstat).mockResolvedValue(_fileStats(false))
+ // Ancestor-identity pin: default to one stable directory identity so the pin
+ // passes unless a test overrides it.
+ vi.mocked(fs.stat).mockResolvedValue(_dirIdentity(100n))
+}
+
+// BigIntStats stand-in for the ancestor pin: the SUT reads only dev/ino off it.
+// BigIntStats is class-backed with no public constructor, so this is a
+// last-resort double assertion (test-local, per AGENTS.md).
+function _dirIdentity(ino: bigint): BigIntStats {
+ return { dev: 1n, ino } as unknown as BigIntStats
+}
+function _stats(mode: number): fsSync.Stats {
+ const s = Object.create(fsSync.Stats.prototype) as fsSync.Stats
+ Object.assign(s, { mode })
+ return s
+}
+
+// ── Test 1: staging file created then cleaned after success ────────────────
+
+describe("safeWriteText", () => {
+ beforeEach(() => {
+ mockDefaults()
+ // Default sync-write behaviour: report that all requested bytes were
+ // written. The Buffer overload passes (fd, buffer, offset, length),
+ // so the fourth argument is the requested length.
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.writeSync).mockImplementation((...args: unknown[]) =>
+ typeof args[3] === "number" ? args[3] : 0,
+ )
+ })
+
+ describe("staging and cleanup", () => {
+ it("creates a temp file in the staging dir, fsyncs it, renames to target, and cleans up on success", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1) // fd=1
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.closeSync).mockReturnValue(undefined)
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "hello world", { platform: "linux" })
+
+ // staging dir was created with private permissions — use
+ // stringContaining to handle Windows path resolution
+ expect(fsSync.mkdirSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining(".file-safety-staging"), {
+ recursive: true,
+ mode: 0o700,
+ })
+ // a pre-existing staging dir is repaired to private permissions too
+ expect(fsSync.chmodSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining(".file-safety-staging"), 0o700)
+
+ // temp file was opened for writing with the existing target's mode
+ // (default 0o644 from the statSync default mock)
+ expect(fsSync.openSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"), "w", 0o644)
+
+ // content was written as a buffer (partial-write loop, full write)
+ expect(fsSync.writeSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith(1, Buffer.from("hello world", "utf8"), 0, 11)
+
+ // fsync (sync form) was called on the fd
+ expect(fsSync.fsyncSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith(1)
+
+ // file was closed
+ expect(fsSync.closeSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith(1)
+
+ // atomic rename happened — realpath mock returns targetPath, so that's the dest
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"), targetPath)
+
+ // no unlink of temp (it's now the committed file; DACL skipped via platform:linux)
+ expect(fs.unlink).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+
+ it("removes the now-empty staging directory after a successful self-staged commit", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "hello", { platform: "linux" })
+
+ // the staging subdir is removed best-effort after the commit rename
+ // (stringContaining: the SUT and the test helper resolve Windows
+ // drive-relative paths differently, as in the existing staging tests)
+ expect(fs.rmdir).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+ expect(fs.rmdir).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining(".file-safety-staging"))
+ // the win32 DACL restore gate must stay closed on other platforms:
+ // no icacls save or restore is attempted
+ expect(execFile).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+
+ it("still removes the staging directory when no options are supplied at all", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+
+ // options is undefined: the self-staged check and the optional-chained
+ // DACL runner lookup must not dereference it
+ await expect(safeWriteText(targetPath, "hello")).resolves.toBeUndefined()
+
+ expect(fs.rmdir).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+ expect(fs.rmdir).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining(".file-safety-staging"))
+ if (process.platform === "win32") {
+ // default platform is win32: the DACL save + restore still ran
+ // through the default icacls path (options?.execFileRunner must
+ // not throw when options is undefined)
+ expect(vi.mocked(execFile)).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
+ expect(vi.mocked(fs.unlink)).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText.acl"))
+ }
+ })
+
+ it("does not remove the staging directory when the caller supplies its own tempPath", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ const callerTemp = "/tmp/test-dir/caller-staged.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "hello", { platform: "linux", tempPath: callerTemp })
+
+ // the caller owns its temp file's directory; safeWriteText must not
+ // rmdir a directory it did not create
+ expect(fs.rmdir).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+
+ it("a failed staging-dir removal never fails the committed write", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+ vi.mocked(fs.rmdir).mockRejectedValue(Object.assign(new Error("ENOTEMPTY"), { code: "ENOTEMPTY" }))
+
+ await expect(safeWriteText(targetPath, "hello", { platform: "linux" })).resolves.toBeUndefined()
+
+ // the commit rename still happened and the rmdir error was swallowed
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining(".file-safety-staging"), targetPath)
+ expect(fs.rmdir).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+ expect(fs.rmdir).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining(".file-safety-staging"))
+ })
+
+ it("gives each self-staged write its own staging directory so a concurrent write cannot remove it", async () => {
+ const targetA = "/tmp/test-dir/target-a.txt"
+ const targetB = "/tmp/test-dir/target-b.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockImplementation((p) => Promise.resolve(p as string))
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetA, "a", { platform: "linux" })
+ await safeWriteText(targetB, "b", { platform: "linux" })
+
+ // Two self-staged writes in the same directory must not share one staging
+ // directory: the first write's best-effort rmdir would otherwise delete the
+ // directory the second write had created but not yet opened (ENOENT on openSync).
+ const created = vi.mocked(fsSync.mkdirSync).mock.calls.map((c) => String(c[0]))
+ const staging = created.filter((p) => p.includes(".file-safety-staging_"))
+ expect(staging).toHaveLength(2)
+ expect(staging[0]).not.toBe(staging[1])
+ // Uniqueness comes from the documented name shape
+ //
/.file-safety-staging__: pinning the shape
+ // keeps the separator and the random suffix meaningful, not just the prefix.
+ for (const dir of staging) {
+ expect(dir).toMatch(/\.file-safety-staging_\d+_[a-z0-9]+$/)
+ }
+ const removed = vi.mocked(fs.rmdir).mock.calls.map((c) => String(c[0]))
+ expect(removed).toEqual([staging[0], staging[1]])
+ })
+
+ it("removes its own staging directory when a self-staged write fails", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+ vi.mocked(fs.rename).mockRejectedValue(Object.assign(new Error("EACCES"), { code: "EACCES" }))
+
+ await expect(safeWriteText(targetPath, "hello", { platform: "linux" })).rejects.toThrow("EACCES")
+
+ // The failed write's temp file is unlinked, then the directory it
+ // created is removed — a failed write must not leave an empty
+ // .file-safety-staging directory behind.
+ // mkdirSync created this write's staging directory; the temp file lives
+ // inside it, so the unlink targets a path under that directory.
+ const staging = vi.mocked(fsSync.mkdirSync).mock.calls.map((c) => String(c[0]))
+ expect(staging).toHaveLength(1)
+ expect(fs.unlink).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining(staging[0]))
+ expect(fs.rmdir).toHaveBeenCalledWith(staging[0])
+ // The directory is only empty after its temp file is gone, so the
+ // unlink must happen before the rmdir.
+ expect(vi.mocked(fs.unlink).mock.invocationCallOrder[0]).toBeLessThan(
+ vi.mocked(fs.rmdir).mock.invocationCallOrder[0],
+ )
+ })
+
+ it("does not remove a staging directory it did not create when a caller-staged write fails", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ const callerTemp = "/tmp/test-dir/caller-staged.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+ vi.mocked(fs.rename).mockRejectedValue(Object.assign(new Error("EACCES"), { code: "EACCES" }))
+
+ await expect(
+ safeWriteText(targetPath, "hello", { platform: "linux", tempPath: callerTemp }),
+ ).rejects.toThrow("EACCES")
+
+ // The caller owns that directory: only the caller's temp file is cleaned,
+ // never a rmdir of a directory safeWriteText never created.
+ expect(fs.unlink).toHaveBeenCalledWith(callerTemp)
+ expect(fs.rmdir).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+
+ it("rejects a supplied staging path that names the publish target", async () => {
+ // resolvePublishTarget realpaths the target (identity here) and compares
+ // the supplied staging path against that resolved target, so both sides
+ // must use this platform's path module rather than a posix literal.
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockImplementation(async (p) => p.toString())
+ const targetPath = path.resolve("/tmp/test-dir/target.txt")
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+
+ await expect(
+ safeWriteText(targetPath, "hello", { platform: "linux", tempPath: targetPath }),
+ ).rejects.toThrow(StagingPathError)
+
+ // Rejected before staging touches anything: the target file stays the
+ // target's own, never a staging candidate that could rename onto itself.
+ expect(fsSync.openSync).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+ })
+
+ // ── Test 2: fsync ordering ───────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+ describe("fsync ordering", () => {
+ it("calls fsync on the fd before close, and rename after close", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { platform: "linux" })
+
+ // Verify call order: openSync(temp) → writeSync → fsyncSync(temp)
+ // → closeSync(temp) → rename. On POSIX the parent directory is then
+ // opened and fsynced after the commit rename, so openSync/fsyncSync/
+ // closeSync each have a second (directory) call.
+ expect(vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mock.calls.length).toBe(2)
+ expect(vi.mocked(fsSync.writeSync).mock.calls.length).toBe(1)
+ expect(vi.mocked(fsSync.fsyncSync).mock.calls.length).toBe(2)
+ expect(vi.mocked(fsSync.closeSync).mock.calls.length).toBe(2)
+
+ // the temp file was fully closed before the commit rename
+ expect(vi.mocked(fsSync.closeSync).mock.calls[0][0]).toBe(1)
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"), targetPath)
+ // The title promises the order, so compare the invocations rather than
+ // only count them: a rename before closeSync, or a close before fsync,
+ // would not be a durable commit.
+ const fsyncOrder = vi.mocked(fsSync.fsyncSync).mock.invocationCallOrder[0]
+ const closeOrder = vi.mocked(fsSync.closeSync).mock.invocationCallOrder[0]
+ const renameOrder = vi.mocked(fs.rename).mock.invocationCallOrder[0]
+ expect(fsyncOrder).toBeLessThan(closeOrder)
+ expect(closeOrder).toBeLessThan(renameOrder)
+ })
+ })
+
+ // ── Test 3: simulated failure between write and rename leaves target intact ──
+
+ describe("crash/torn-write safety", () => {
+ it("simulated failure between fsync and rename leaves the target byte-identical and no temp left behind", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+ vi.mocked(fs.rename).mockRejectedValue(new Error("ENOSPC"))
+
+ await expect(safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", { platform: "linux" })).rejects.toThrow("ENOSPC")
+
+ // rename was attempted (the failure point)
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"), targetPath)
+
+ // temp file was cleaned up on failure
+ expect(fs.unlink).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"))
+
+ // backup was NOT created (backup:false by default), so target is untouched
+ // The only rename call was temp→target, not a rollback rename
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+ })
+
+ it("a post-commit backup cleanup failure is non-fatal: the target stays committed and no temp is left behind", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+ // The post-commit backup unlink (SUT step 6) fails — the write must
+ // still succeed; an orphaned backup is the documented acceptable
+ // outcome, so the failure is swallowed instead of rolling back.
+ vi.mocked(fs.unlink).mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error("EPERM"))
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { backup: true, platform: "linux" })
+
+ // the commit rename (temp -> target) still happened; it is the only rename
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"), targetPath)
+
+ // the failing cleanup was the post-commit backup unlink
+ expect(fs.unlink).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText.bak_"))
+
+ // the staging temp was already committed by the rename; nothing
+ // temp-shaped is unlinked afterwards
+ expect(fs.unlink).not.toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"))
+ })
+ })
+
+ // ── Test 4: backup:true keeps old safeWriteJson semantics incl. rollback ──
+
+ describe("backup:true", () => {
+ it("copies target -> backup before commit without moving the target, deletes the copy on success", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", { backup: true })
+
+ // target was accessed (exists check)
+ expect(fs.access).toHaveBeenCalledWith(targetPath)
+
+ // The backup is a copy: the canonical target is never moved away, so readers
+ // never see a missing file and no later step can clobber a concurrent publish.
+ expect(fs.copyFile).toHaveBeenCalledWith(targetPath, expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText.bak_"))
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalledWith(targetPath, expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText.bak_"))
+
+ // the only rename is the atomic commit temp -> target
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"), targetPath)
+
+ // backup copy was deleted on success
+ expect(fs.unlink).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText.bak_"))
+ })
+
+ it("a failed commit does not move the target, so nothing has to be rolled back", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+ // The commit rename is the only rename in the flow and it fails.
+ vi.mocked(fs.rename).mockRejectedValue(new Error("ENOSPC"))
+
+ await expect(safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", { backup: true })).rejects.toThrow("ENOSPC")
+
+ // The target never left its path, so there is no restore rename and the
+ // pre-write content is still what a reader sees at targetPath.
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+ expect(fs.copyFile).toHaveBeenCalledWith(targetPath, expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText.bak_"))
+
+ // Both the backup copy and the staging temp are cleaned up on failure.
+ expect(fs.unlink).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText.bak_"))
+ expect(fs.unlink).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"))
+ })
+
+ it("retries the post-commit backup removal and succeeds when the retry clears", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+ const backupUnlinks: string[] = []
+ vi.mocked(fs.unlink).mockImplementation(async (candidate: unknown) => {
+ const asString = String(candidate)
+ if (asString.includes("safeWriteText.bak_")) {
+ backupUnlinks.push(asString)
+ // The first attempt hits a transient Windows handle; the retry succeeds.
+ if (backupUnlinks.length === 1) {
+ throw Object.assign(new Error("EBUSY"), { code: "EBUSY" })
+ }
+ }
+ })
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", { backup: true })
+
+ expect(backupUnlinks).toHaveLength(2)
+ })
+
+ it("surfaces an orphaned pre-write copy instead of returning success", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+ vi.mocked(fs.unlink).mockImplementation(async (candidate: unknown) => {
+ if (String(candidate).includes("safeWriteText.bak_")) {
+ throw Object.assign(new Error("EPERM"), { code: "EPERM" })
+ }
+ })
+
+ const error = await safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", { backup: true }).catch(
+ (caught: unknown) => caught,
+ )
+
+ expect(error).toBeInstanceOf(OrphanedPublishedBackupError)
+ const orphan = error as OrphanedPublishedBackupError
+ expect(orphan.orphanedBackupPath).toContain("safeWriteText.bak_")
+ expect(orphan.publishedPath).toBe(targetPath)
+ // Two attempts, then the failure is reported instead of swallowed.
+ expect(
+ vi.mocked(fs.unlink).mock.calls.filter((call) => String(call[0]).includes("safeWriteText.bak_")),
+ ).toHaveLength(2)
+ })
+
+ it("creates the backup privately before its content exists, then fsyncs it", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", { backup: true })
+
+ // The destination must exist with a private mode before copyFile writes anything
+ // into it: copyFile chooses the destination mode itself, so a restrictive target
+ // could otherwise leave a group/world-readable copy that a later chmod cannot
+ // undo. "wx" also means a pre-existing path is never silently reused.
+ const seedOpen = vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mock.calls.find(function (call) {
+ return String(call[0]).includes("safeWriteText.bak_") && call[1] === "wx"
+ })
+ expect(seedOpen).toBeDefined()
+ expect(seedOpen?.[2]).toBe(0o600)
+ const seedOrder = vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mock.invocationCallOrder[
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mock.calls.indexOf(seedOpen!)
+ ]
+ expect(seedOrder).toBeLessThan(vi.mocked(fs.copyFile).mock.invocationCallOrder[0])
+
+ // The chmod keeps a copied read-only attribute (Windows) from breaking the fsync
+ // open, and keeps a backup of a permissive file private.
+ expect(fs.copyFile).toHaveBeenCalledWith(targetPath, expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText.bak_"))
+ expect(fs.chmod).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText.bak_"), 0o600)
+ expect(vi.mocked(fs.chmod).mock.invocationCallOrder[0]).toBeGreaterThan(
+ vi.mocked(fs.copyFile).mock.invocationCallOrder[0],
+ )
+
+ // The copy is then opened for fsync with the writable flag.
+ const backupOpen = vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mock.calls.find(function (call) {
+ return String(call[0]).includes("safeWriteText.bak_") && call[1] === "r+"
+ })
+ expect(backupOpen).toBeDefined()
+ })
+
+ it("a failed backup flush is reported and leaves no partial backup behind", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+ // The copy lands, but the fsync of the copy fails: the retained content is not
+ // known to be durable, so the write must not proceed on a half-written backup.
+ // The staged temp is fsynced earlier with a different handle, so target the
+ // backup's fd specifically.
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockImplementation((p: unknown) =>
+ String(p).includes("safeWriteText.bak_") ? 7 : 1,
+ )
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.fsyncSync).mockImplementation((fd: unknown) => {
+ if (fd === 7) {
+ throw new Error("EIO")
+ }
+ })
+
+ await expect(safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", { backup: true, platform: "linux" })).rejects.toThrow(
+ "EIO",
+ )
+
+ // Nothing was published, and the incomplete copy is removed rather than left
+ // next to the target looking like a usable backup.
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ expect(fs.unlink).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText.bak_"))
+ expect(fs.unlink).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"))
+ })
+
+ it("carries the leftover path when the partial backup cannot be removed either", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockImplementation((p: unknown) =>
+ String(p).includes("safeWriteText.bak_") ? 7 : 1,
+ )
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.fsyncSync).mockImplementation((fd: unknown) => {
+ if (fd === 7) {
+ throw new Error("EIO")
+ }
+ })
+ let unlinkAttempts = 0
+ vi.mocked(fs.unlink).mockImplementation(async (p: unknown) => {
+ if (String(p).includes("safeWriteText.bak_")) {
+ unlinkAttempts++
+ }
+ throw Object.assign(new Error("EPERM"), { code: "EPERM" })
+ })
+
+ // The copy failed and the locked leftover could not be unlinked even after the
+ // retry. Dropping the path would leave a partial copy of the previous content on
+ // disk with no reference to it anywhere, so the error carries it.
+ const error = await safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", {
+ backup: true,
+ platform: "linux",
+ }).catch((caught: unknown) => caught)
+
+ expect(error).toBeInstanceOf(OrphanedBackupError)
+ const orphan = error as OrphanedBackupError
+ expect(orphan.orphanedBackupPath).toContain("safeWriteText.bak_")
+ expect(orphan.message).toContain("safeWriteText.bak_")
+ expect(orphan.message).toContain("EPERM")
+ expect(orphan.originalError).toBeInstanceOf(Error)
+ expect((orphan.originalError as Error).message).toBe("EIO")
+ expect(orphan.cause).toBe(orphan.originalError)
+ expect(unlinkAttempts).toBe(2)
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+
+ it("a backup copy that fails part-way is removed, not left as a usable-looking backup", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+ // The destination is seeded with openSync("wx") BEFORE any content exists at it,
+ // and the copy then fails part-way: the name is there, holding a partial copy of
+ // nothing usable. Cleanup has to key off the attempt, not off a copy that
+ // succeeded, or this file outlives the failed write beside the target.
+ vi.mocked(fs.copyFile).mockRejectedValue(Object.assign(new Error("EIO"), { code: "EIO" }))
+
+ await expect(safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", { backup: true, platform: "linux" })).rejects.toThrow(
+ "EIO",
+ )
+
+ // Nothing was published, and the half-written copy is removed rather than left
+ // next to the target looking like a backup someone could restore.
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ expect(fs.unlink).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText.bak_"))
+ expect(fs.unlink).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"))
+ })
+
+ it("backup:true when target does not exist: no backup created, just commit", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+ // fs.access resolves for dirPath check, but rejects for target check (backup path)
+ vi.mocked(fs.access).mockImplementation(async (p) => {
+ if (typeof p === "string" && p.endsWith("target.txt")) throw { code: "ENOENT" }
+ })
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", { backup: true, platform: "linux" })
+
+ // no backup rename (target didn't exist)
+ expect(fs.access).toHaveBeenCalledWith(targetPath)
+
+ // only one rename: temp -> target
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"), targetPath)
+
+ // no unlink (no backup to delete; DACL skipped via platform:linux)
+ expect(fs.unlink).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+ })
+
+ // ── Test 5: win32 DACL path ──────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+ describe("win32 DACL", () => {
+ it.skipIf(process.platform !== "win32")(
+ "copies target DACL onto staging file via icacls before rename on Windows",
+ async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { platform: "win32" })
+
+ // icacls dump + restore were called (execFile is callback-based mock)
+ expect(execFile).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
+ },
+ )
+
+ it("non-win32: DACL path is unreachable when platform is not win32", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { platform: "linux" })
+
+ // icacls was NOT called on non-win32
+ expect(execFile).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+
+ it("win32 DACL failure falls back to plain rename (never fails the write)", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+ // icacls dump fails — the callback-based mock must invoke cb with an error.
+ vi.mocked(execFile).mockImplementation((_cmd, _args, _opts, cb) => {
+ if (typeof cb === "function") cb(new Error("icacls error"), "", "")
+ return fakeChild
+ })
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { platform: "win32" })
+
+ // write succeeded despite icacls failure (fallback to plain rename)
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining(".file-safety-staging"), targetPath)
+ // one icacls attempt only: a failed DACL apply must not try to restore
+ expect(execFile).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+ })
+
+ it("win32 DACL: a partial dump left by a failed save is removed and never restored", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+ // icacls save fails — a real icacls may have written a partial dump
+ // before erroring, so the dump path must be cleaned up and must never
+ // be used for a restore.
+ vi.mocked(execFile).mockImplementation((_cmd, _args, _opts, cb) => {
+ if (typeof cb === "function") cb(new Error("icacls save error"), "", "")
+ return fakeChild
+ })
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { platform: "win32" })
+
+ // write committed; only the save was attempted (no restore from a failed dump)
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"), targetPath)
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+ expect(execFile).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+ const saveArgs = vi.mocked(execFile).mock.calls[0]?.[1]
+ expect(saveArgs?.[1]).toBe("/save")
+ // the dump path (possibly partially created by icacls) was unlinked
+ expect(fs.unlink).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText.acl"))
+ })
+
+ it("win32 DACL save args are [targetPath, /save, dumpPath, /T] before backup rename", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { backup: true, platform: "win32" })
+
+ // icacls was called twice (save + restore)
+ expect(execFile).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
+
+ // First call: save DACL from target before backup rename
+ const firstCall = vi.mocked(execFile).mock.calls[0]
+ expect(firstCall[0]).toBe("icacls")
+ expect(firstCall[1]).toEqual([targetPath, "/save", expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText.acl"), "/T"])
+
+ // Second call: restore DACL onto directory after commit rename
+ const secondCall = vi.mocked(execFile).mock.calls[1]
+ expect(secondCall[0]).toBe("icacls")
+ expect(secondCall[1]).toEqual([
+ expect.stringContaining("/tmp/test-dir"),
+ "/restore",
+ expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText.acl"),
+ ])
+
+ // dump file was unlinked after restore
+ expect(fs.unlink).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText.acl"))
+ })
+
+ it("win32 DACL: dump is unlinked even when restore fails", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+
+ // icacls save succeeds, restore fails
+ let callCount = 0
+ vi.mocked(execFile).mockImplementation((_cmd, _args, _opts, cb) => {
+ callCount++
+ if (typeof cb === "function") {
+ cb(callCount === 1 ? null : new Error("icacls restore error"), "", "")
+ }
+ return fakeChild
+ })
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { platform: "win32" })
+
+ // write succeeded despite restore failure (best-effort)
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"), targetPath)
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+
+ // dump file was still unlinked in finally
+ expect(fs.unlink).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText.acl"))
+ })
+
+ it("win32 DACL: when target does not exist, no save/restore/dump", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+
+ // fs.access rejects for targetPath (ENOENT), but resolves for dirPath
+ vi.mocked(fs.access).mockImplementation(async (p) => {
+ if (typeof p === "string" && p.endsWith("target.txt")) throw { code: "ENOENT" }
+ return undefined
+ })
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { platform: "win32" })
+
+ // icacls was NOT called (target absent → skip DACL entirely)
+ expect(execFile).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+
+ // no dump file created or unlinked
+ expect(fs.unlink).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+ })
+
+ // ── Test 6: pre-written temp path (tempPath option) ──────────────────────
+
+ describe("pre-written temp path", () => {
+ it("uses the provided tempPath, fsyncs it, and renames to target", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+
+ const customTempPath = "/tmp/test-dir/custom-temp.tmp"
+
+ // platform:linux skips DACL entirely so this test focuses on tempPath only
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "", { tempPath: customTempPath, platform: "linux" })
+
+ // openSync was called on the custom temp path (r+ mode for fsync)
+ expect(fsSync.openSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith(customTempPath, "r+")
+
+ // fsync was called
+ expect(fsSync.fsyncSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith(1)
+
+ // rename happened — realpath mock returns targetPath
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(customTempPath, targetPath)
+
+ // no unlink of custom temp (caller's concern; DACL skipped via platform:linux)
+ expect(fs.unlink).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+
+ // a caller-supplied tempPath must not create the staging directory
+ expect(fsSync.mkdirSync).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+
+ it("applies the existing target's mode to a caller-supplied tempPath before publishing", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.statSync).mockReturnValue(_stats(0o600))
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(2)
+
+ const customTempPath = "/tmp/test-dir/custom-temp.tmp"
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "", { tempPath: customTempPath, platform: "linux" })
+
+ // the caller-staged temp is fchmod'd to the restrictive target mode so
+ // the atomic rename cannot widen a 0o600 target (CWE-732 regression)
+ expect(fsSync.fchmodSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith(2, 0o600)
+ expect(fsSync.openSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith(customTempPath, "r+")
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(customTempPath, targetPath)
+ })
+
+ it("keeps the temp's default mode when the target does not exist yet (ENOENT)", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ const enoent = Object.assign(new Error("ENOENT: no such file or directory"), { code: "ENOENT" })
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.statSync).mockImplementation(() => {
+ throw enoent
+ })
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(2)
+
+ const customTempPath = "/tmp/test-dir/custom-temp.tmp"
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "", { tempPath: customTempPath, platform: "linux" })
+
+ // no existing target, so nothing to preserve and no fchmod on the temp
+ expect(fsSync.fchmodSync).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(customTempPath, targetPath)
+ })
+
+ it("propagates a non-ENOENT stat failure rather than defaulting the mode (caller-staged)", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ const eacces = Object.assign(new Error("EACCES: permission denied"), { code: "EACCES" })
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.statSync).mockImplementation(() => {
+ throw eacces
+ })
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(2)
+
+ const customTempPath = "/tmp/test-dir/custom-temp.tmp"
+
+ // A target that cannot be stat'd is not a fresh target: publishing with
+ // the default mode would widen a restrictive target through the rename.
+ await expect(
+ safeWriteText(targetPath, "", { tempPath: customTempPath, platform: "linux" }),
+ ).rejects.toThrow("EACCES")
+ expect(fsSync.fchmodSync).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+
+ it("propagates a non-ENOENT stat failure rather than defaulting the mode (self-staged)", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ const eio = Object.assign(new Error("EIO: i/o error"), { code: "EIO" })
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.statSync).mockImplementation(() => {
+ throw eio
+ })
+
+ // The mode is read before the temp is opened, so a real I/O failure stops
+ // the write before anything is staged.
+ await expect(safeWriteText(targetPath, "hello world", { platform: "linux" })).rejects.toThrow("EIO")
+ expect(fsSync.openSync).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+
+ it("opens the temp before applying a read-only target's mode (0o444 does not block the open)", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.statSync).mockReturnValue(_stats(0o444))
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(3)
+
+ const customTempPath = "/tmp/test-dir/custom-temp.tmp"
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "", { tempPath: customTempPath, platform: "linux" })
+
+ // a 0o444 target must not make openSync(tempPath, "r+") fail: the mode
+ // is applied with fchmodSync on the already-open fd, after the open
+ expect(fsSync.openSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith(customTempPath, "r+")
+ expect(fsSync.fchmodSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith(3, 0o444)
+ const openIdx = vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mock.invocationCallOrder[0]
+ const fchmodIdx = vi.mocked(fsSync.fchmodSync).mock.invocationCallOrder[0]
+ expect(openIdx).toBeLessThan(fchmodIdx)
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(customTempPath, targetPath)
+ })
+
+ it("applies the existing target's exact mode to the self-staged temp (umask must not narrow it)", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.statSync).mockReturnValue(_stats(0o664))
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { platform: "linux" })
+
+ // openSync's creation mode is narrowed by the process umask (0o664 -> 0o644 with
+ // the common 0o022), and the rename publishes the temp's mode onto the target,
+ // so the existing target's mode must be applied on the fd before the commit.
+ expect(fsSync.fchmodSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith(1, 0o664)
+ const openIdx = vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mock.invocationCallOrder[0]
+ const fchmodIdx = vi.mocked(fsSync.fchmodSync).mock.invocationCallOrder[0]
+ expect(openIdx).toBeLessThan(fchmodIdx)
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"), targetPath)
+ })
+
+ it("a failed post-commit directory fsync does not roll the backup back over the published content", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ const dirPath = path.dirname(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ // The file fd opens normally; the parent-directory open after the commit
+ // rename fails, which is the post-commit durability failure.
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockImplementation((target) => {
+ if (String(target) === dirPath) throw new Error("EBADF")
+ return 1
+ })
+
+ await expect(safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", { backup: true, platform: "linux" })).rejects.toThrow(
+ PostCommitDurabilityError,
+ )
+
+ // The commit rename already published the new content, and the backup was only
+ // ever a copy: the target was never moved, so there is nothing to rename back.
+ expect(fs.copyFile).toHaveBeenCalledWith(targetPath, expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText.bak_"))
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"), targetPath)
+
+ // The durability failure is reported, not swallowed - and the backup copy is not
+ // left beside the target where no caller could find it.
+ expect(fs.unlink).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText.bak_"))
+ })
+
+ it("does not fchmod the self-staged temp for a fresh target", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ const enoent = Object.assign(new Error("ENOENT: no such file or directory"), { code: "ENOENT" })
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.statSync).mockImplementation(() => {
+ throw enoent
+ })
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { platform: "linux" })
+
+ // Nothing exists to preserve: the default creation mode is the intended one.
+ expect(fsSync.fchmodSync).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+ })
+
+ // ── Test 7: symlink handling (Finding 4 regression test) ─────────────────
+
+ describe("symlink handling", () => {
+ it("a write through a symlink commits onto the resolved referent, never the link path", async () => {
+ const linkPath = "/tmp/links/link.txt"
+ const referentPath = "/tmp/targets/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(referentPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+
+ await safeWriteText(linkPath, "new-content", { platform: "linux" })
+
+ // The commit rename must target the realpath result (the referent), never the link itself —
+ // that is what guarantees a write through a symlink replaces the referent's content
+ // and preserves the link.
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"), referentPath)
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.anything(), linkPath)
+ })
+
+ it("when realpath reports ENOENT (target absent), uses the given path as-is", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockRejectedValue(Object.assign(new Error("ENOENT"), { code: "ENOENT" }))
+ // lstat reports the path itself as absent, so this is a new target and
+ // the fallback is allowed.
+ vi.mocked(fs.lstat).mockRejectedValue(Object.assign(new Error("ENOENT"), { code: "ENOENT" }))
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { platform: "linux" })
+
+ // rename still happened with the fallback path (path.resolve on /tmp → C:\tmp)
+ const resolvedFallback = _resolvedTarget(targetPath)
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"), resolvedFallback)
+ })
+
+ it("propagates a dangling symlink instead of writing through the link path", async () => {
+ // realpath resolves the referent, so a link whose target is missing reports
+ // ENOENT. Falling back to the link path would replace the symlink with a
+ // regular file, so the error must propagate and nothing may be committed.
+ const linkPath = "/tmp/test-dir/dangling-link.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockRejectedValue(Object.assign(new Error("ENOENT"), { code: "ENOENT" }))
+ const linkStats = Object.create(fsSync.Stats.prototype) as fsSync.Stats
+ linkStats.isSymbolicLink = () => true
+ vi.mocked(fs.lstat).mockResolvedValue(linkStats)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+
+ await expect(safeWriteText(linkPath, "data", { platform: "linux" })).rejects.toThrow("ENOENT")
+
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+ })
+
+ // ── Test 8: review fixes (permissions, partial writes, resolution, durability) ──
+
+ describe("review fixes", () => {
+ it("preserves the target's restrictive mode and tolerates a failed staging-dir permission repair", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.statSync).mockReturnValue(_stats(0o600))
+ // a pre-existing staging dir may fail its best-effort permission repair
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.chmodSync).mockImplementationOnce(() => {
+ throw new Error("EACCES")
+ })
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "secret", { platform: "linux" })
+
+ // the staging file inherits the target's 0o600 mode and the write commits
+ expect(fsSync.openSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"), "w", 0o600)
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"), targetPath)
+ })
+
+ it("falls back to the 0o644 default when the target does not exist yet", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.statSync).mockImplementation(() => {
+ throw Object.assign(new Error("ENOENT"), { code: "ENOENT" })
+ })
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "fresh", { platform: "linux" })
+
+ expect(fsSync.openSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"), "w", 0o644)
+ })
+
+ it("loops on short writes until the full content is durable before fsync", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ const content = "0123456789" // 10 bytes
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+ const buffer = Buffer.from(content, "utf8")
+ // first write (offset 0) reports 4 bytes (short write); the loop continues
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.writeSync).mockImplementation((...args: unknown[]) =>
+ args[2] === 0 ? 4 : typeof args[3] === "number" ? args[3] : 0,
+ )
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, content, { platform: "linux" })
+
+ // [0,10) reports 4 bytes, then [4,10) writes the remaining 6
+ expect(fsSync.writeSync).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
+ expect(fsSync.writeSync).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(1, 1, buffer, 0, 10)
+ expect(fsSync.writeSync).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(2, 1, buffer, 4, 6)
+ expect(fsSync.fsyncSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith(1)
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"), targetPath)
+ })
+
+ it("fails the write outright when a staging write makes no progress", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+ // A zero-byte result means the filesystem stopped accepting progress;
+ // the loop must fail instead of spinning, so cleanup can run.
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.writeSync).mockImplementation(() => 0)
+
+ await expect(safeWriteText(targetPath, "0123456789", { platform: "linux" })).rejects.toThrow(
+ /made no progress/,
+ )
+
+ // One attempt only: no fsync, no publish, and the staged file is torn down.
+ expect(fsSync.writeSync).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+ expect(fsSync.fsyncSync).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ expect(fs.unlink).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"))
+ })
+
+ it("fsyncs the parent directory after the commit rename on POSIX", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ // temp fd=1 then parent-dir fd=2 - distinct fds prove the ordering
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValueOnce(1).mockReturnValue(2)
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { platform: "linux" })
+
+ // the directory fsync (fd 2) happens only after the file fsync (fd 1);
+ // the dir path assertion is path-agnostic (stringContaining) because
+ // path.dirname renders the same input differently on Windows
+ expect(fsSync.openSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("test-dir"), "r")
+ expect(fsSync.fsyncSync).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(1, 1)
+ expect(fsSync.fsyncSync).toHaveBeenNthCalledWith(2, 2)
+ expect(fsSync.closeSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith(2)
+ })
+
+ it("reports a failed parent-directory fsync instead of claiming a durable write", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync)
+ .mockReturnValueOnce(1)
+ .mockImplementationOnce(() => {
+ throw new Error("EBADF")
+ })
+
+ // The content rename committed, so the caller can still find the data at
+ // the target; what the write cannot claim is that the directory entry
+ // reached the disk. Returning success here would claim durability the
+ // filesystem did not grant.
+ await expect(safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { platform: "linux" })).rejects.toThrow(
+ PostCommitDurabilityError,
+ )
+
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"), targetPath)
+ })
+
+ it("propagates realpath errors (EACCES and code-less) instead of the fallback path", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ const eacces = Object.assign(new Error("EACCES: permission denied"), { code: "EACCES" })
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockRejectedValueOnce(eacces)
+ await expect(safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { platform: "linux" })).rejects.toBe(eacces)
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+
+ const plain = new Error("resolution failed")
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockRejectedValueOnce(plain)
+ await expect(safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { platform: "linux" })).rejects.toBe(plain)
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+
+ it("backup:true propagates access errors (EACCES and code-less) instead of skipping the backup", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ const eacces = Object.assign(new Error("EACCES"), { code: "EACCES" })
+ const plain = new Error("access failed")
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+ // each write accesses dirPath then target; only the target access rejects
+ const rejectTarget = (error: Error) => async (p: unknown) => {
+ if (typeof p === "string" && p.endsWith("target.txt")) throw error
+ }
+ vi.mocked(fs.access)
+ .mockImplementationOnce(rejectTarget(eacces))
+ .mockImplementationOnce(rejectTarget(eacces))
+ .mockImplementationOnce(rejectTarget(plain))
+ .mockImplementationOnce(rejectTarget(plain))
+
+ await expect(safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { backup: true, platform: "linux" })).rejects.toEqual(
+ expect.objectContaining({ code: "EACCES" }),
+ )
+ await expect(safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { backup: true, platform: "linux" })).rejects.toThrow(
+ "access failed",
+ )
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+ })
+
+ it("a failed post-commit directory fsync never unlinks the committed target", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ const dirPath = path.dirname(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockImplementation((target) => {
+ if (String(target) === dirPath) throw new Error("EBADF")
+ return 1
+ })
+
+ await expect(safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", { backup: true, platform: "linux" })).rejects.toThrow(
+ PostCommitDurabilityError,
+ )
+
+ // The commit state is what cleanup is allowed to act on: the staging file may be
+ // unlinked only while it is still the staging file. Once the rename has committed,
+ // the only path this write owns at the target is the published content itself, and
+ // removing it would turn a durability warning into data loss.
+ expect(fs.unlink).not.toHaveBeenCalledWith(targetPath)
+ })
+
+ it("a failed post-commit directory fsync does not unlink the staging path this write no longer owns", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ const dirPath = path.dirname(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ // A caller-supplied staging file: the name is the caller's, not one this write made
+ // up, so after the commit it is a path another writer may already be using again.
+ // The caller's staging file sits beside the target, as this contract requires.
+ const suppliedTemp = path.join(dirPath, "caller.new_data.json")
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockImplementation((target) => {
+ if (String(target) === dirPath) throw new Error("EBADF")
+ return 1
+ })
+
+ await expect(
+ safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", { backup: true, platform: "linux", tempPath: suppliedTemp }),
+ ).rejects.toThrow(PostCommitDurabilityError)
+
+ // The rename consumed the staging file; the commit is what says so. Unlinking the
+ // staging NAME afterwards is an unlink of whatever now answers to that name.
+ expect(fs.unlink).not.toHaveBeenCalledWith(suppliedTemp)
+ expect(fs.unlink).not.toHaveBeenCalledWith(targetPath)
+ })
+
+ describe("content bytes", () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/enc-dir/target.txt"
+
+ beforeEach(() => {
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+ })
+
+ it("stages UTF-8 bytes for string content", async () => {
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "héllo", { platform: "linux" })
+ expect(fsSync.writeSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith(1, Buffer.from("héllo", "utf8"), 0, 6)
+ })
+
+ it("publishes caller-supplied bytes unchanged instead of re-encoding them", async () => {
+ // The extension host encodes a document with VS Code's own codec, which
+ // covers the legacy code pages and BOMs Node cannot represent, and hands
+ // the result over: those bytes must reach the commit rename exactly as
+ // they were given.
+ const bytes = Buffer.from([0x00, 0x68, 0x00, 0x69])
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, bytes, { platform: "linux" })
+ expect(fsSync.writeSync).toHaveBeenCalledWith(1, bytes, 0, 4)
+ })
+ })
+ it("a no-replace commit links the staged file into place when the target is absent", async () => {
+ // Isolate the commit-phase counters from any async cleanup a previous
+ // test left in flight.
+ vi.mocked(fs.rename).mockClear()
+ vi.mocked(fs.unlink).mockClear()
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", { failIfExist: true, platform: "linux" })
+
+ // link(2) is the only atomic no-replace publish: a rename would displace a
+ // target that appeared after the caller's absence check.
+ expect(fs.link).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText"), targetPath)
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ // The staged copy is dropped once the name points at it.
+ expect(
+ vi.mocked(fs.unlink).mock.calls.some(function (call) {
+ return String(call[0]).includes("safeWriteText")
+ }),
+ ).toBe(true)
+ })
+
+ it("a no-replace commit refuses a target that appeared after the caller checked", async () => {
+ // Isolate the commit-phase counters from any async cleanup a previous
+ // test left in flight.
+ vi.mocked(fs.rename).mockClear()
+ vi.mocked(fs.unlink).mockClear()
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fs.link).mockRejectedValue(Object.assign(new Error("EEXIST"), { code: "EEXIST" }))
+ // The failure path still cleans up its staging file and directory; keep those
+ // promises real so the cleanup does not mask the rejection under test.
+ vi.mocked(fs.unlink).mockResolvedValue(undefined)
+ vi.mocked(fs.rmdir).mockResolvedValue(undefined)
+
+ const error = await safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", {
+ failIfExist: true,
+ platform: "linux",
+ }).catch((caught: unknown) => caught)
+
+ expect(error).toBeInstanceOf(TargetExistsError)
+ expect((error as TargetExistsError).targetPath).toBe(targetPath)
+ // Nothing replaced the newer file, and the staged copy is not left behind.
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ expect(
+ vi.mocked(fs.unlink).mock.calls.some(function (call) {
+ return String(call[0]).includes("safeWriteText")
+ }),
+ ).toBe(true)
+ })
+
+ it("resolves an absent target through a symlinked ancestor to the canonical path", async () => {
+ // The guard pins the publish to the canonical nearest-ancestor path. An absent
+ // target has to resolve to that same path, or a create through a symlinked
+ // ancestor aborts with TargetMovedError although nothing moved.
+ const linkDir = path.resolve("/tmp/link-dir")
+ const canonicalDir = path.resolve("/real/dir")
+ const canonical = path.join(canonicalDir, "target.txt")
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockImplementation(async (p: unknown) => {
+ if (String(p) === path.join(linkDir, "target.txt")) {
+ throw Object.assign(new Error("ENOENT"), { code: "ENOENT" })
+ }
+ if (String(p) === linkDir) return canonicalDir
+ return String(p)
+ })
+ vi.mocked(fs.lstat).mockRejectedValue(Object.assign(new Error("ENOENT"), { code: "ENOENT" }))
+
+ await safeWriteText(path.join(linkDir, "target.txt"), "new data", {
+ expectedResolvedPath: canonical,
+ platform: "linux",
+ })
+
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText"), canonical)
+ })
+
+ it("fails closed when the filesystem has no atomic no-replace primitive", async () => {
+ // FAT32/exFAT and some SMB mounts reject link(2). Publishing by an exclusive
+ // copy would put bytes at the final name that readers can observe mid-copy,
+ // and a crash or an EIO mid-copy leaves damaged bytes there with the
+ // 'already exists' verdict on retry. No atomic no-replace primitive exists
+ // on those volumes, so the guarded create refuses to publish at all.
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fs.link).mockRejectedValue(Object.assign(new Error("ENOTSUP"), { code: "ENOTSUP" }))
+
+ await expect(
+ safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", { failIfExist: true, platform: "linux" }),
+ ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(UnsupportedFilesystemError)
+
+ // Nothing was published: no copy at the final name, no rename - the name
+ // stays absent for a retry on a capable volume.
+ // Every "no hard links here" code takes the same fail-closed path.
+ for (const code of ["EPERM", "ENOTSUP", "ENOSYS"]) {
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fs.link).mockRejectedValue(Object.assign(new Error(code), { code }))
+
+ await expect(
+ safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", { failIfExist: true, platform: "linux" }),
+ ).rejects.toBeInstanceOf(UnsupportedFilesystemError)
+ }
+ expect(fs.copyFile).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ // Every code reached the link path (the first call plus the three codes
+ // below), so the loop above really exercised all four refusals.
+ expect(fs.link).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(4)
+ // The refusal must not leave its staging file or directory beside the
+ // target: a regression here would drop a .file-safety-staging_* directory
+ // on FAT32/exFAT/SMB volumes after every refused create.
+ expect(fs.unlink).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"))
+ const stagedDirs = vi.mocked(fsSync.mkdirSync).mock.calls.map((call) => String(call[0]))
+ expect(vi.mocked(fs.rmdir).mock.calls.map((call) => String(call[0]))).toEqual(stagedDirs)
+ })
+ it("still reports success when the staged copy cannot be unlinked after the link", async () => {
+ // An antivirus handle on Windows can make unlink fail with EBUSY after link(2)
+ // published the name. The content is readable at the target, so the write must
+ // not be reported as a failure the model then retries into an 'already exists'.
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fs.unlink).mockRejectedValue(Object.assign(new Error("EBUSY"), { code: "EBUSY" }))
+
+ await expect(
+ safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", { failIfExist: true, platform: "linux" }),
+ ).resolves.toBeUndefined()
+ expect(fs.link).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText"), targetPath)
+ })
+
+ it("refuses to publish when the path no longer resolves to the authorized target", async () => {
+ // Isolate the commit-phase counters from any async cleanup a previous test left
+ // in flight.
+ vi.mocked(fs.rename).mockClear()
+ vi.mocked(fs.link).mockClear()
+ const authorized = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ // The caller authorized this path while it was a real file in the workspace; by the
+ // time the publish resolves it, a local process has swapped in a link to somewhere
+ // else. The decision was never made about that other file, so nothing is published.
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue("/outside/the-victim.txt")
+
+ const error = await safeWriteText(authorized, "new data", {
+ expectedResolvedPath: authorized,
+ platform: "linux",
+ }).catch((caught: unknown) => caught)
+
+ expect(error).toBeInstanceOf(TargetMovedError)
+ const moved = error as TargetMovedError
+ expect(moved.authorizedPath).toBe(authorized)
+ expect(moved.resolvedPath).toBe("/outside/the-victim.txt")
+ expect(moved.message).toContain("/outside/the-victim.txt")
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ expect(fs.link).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ // Nothing was staged either: the check runs before the staging directory is made.
+ expect(fs.mkdir).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+
+ it("refuses to publish when an authorized parent directory was replaced after the check", async () => {
+ // expectedResolvedPath pins the NAME being published, so it cannot notice the
+ // directory the name lives in being swapped for another one (a link to outside the
+ // workspace looks exactly like this). The recorded ancestor identities are what
+ // catch it, and the commit is aborted before anything is moved into place.
+ const dir = path.resolve("/tmp/test-dir")
+ const targetPath = path.join(dir, "target.txt")
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fs.rename).mockClear()
+ vi.mocked(fs.link).mockClear()
+ vi.mocked(fs.stat).mockResolvedValue(_dirIdentity(999n)) // was 100n when authorized
+
+ const error = await safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", {
+ expectedResolvedPath: targetPath,
+ expectedAncestorIdentities: [{ dir, dev: 1n, ino: 100n }],
+ platform: "linux",
+ }).catch((caught: unknown) => caught)
+
+ expect(error).toBeInstanceOf(AncestorReplacedError)
+ expect((error as AncestorReplacedError).directory).toBe(dir)
+ expect((error as AncestorReplacedError).message).toContain("no longer the directory that was authorized")
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ expect(fs.link).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ // The staged copy is cleaned up rather than left beside the target.
+ expect(vi.mocked(fs.unlink).mock.calls.some((call) => String(call[0]).includes("safeWriteText"))).toBe(true)
+ })
+
+ it("refuses to publish when an authorized ancestor name was moved and replaced by a link", async () => {
+ // Moving a directory preserves (dev, ino), and replacing the old name with a
+ // symlink to the moved location keeps the identity check matching - stat
+ // follows the link. The commit takes path strings and would follow it too,
+ // publishing at the moved location outside the chain the caller walked, so
+ // the authorized name must still RESOLVE to the authorized location.
+ const dir = path.resolve("/tmp/test-dir")
+ const movedDir = path.resolve("/outside/workspace")
+ const targetPath = path.join(dir, "target.txt")
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockImplementation(async (p) =>
+ path.resolve(String(p)) === dir ? movedDir : targetPath,
+ )
+ vi.mocked(fs.rename).mockClear()
+ vi.mocked(fs.link).mockClear()
+ vi.mocked(fs.stat).mockResolvedValue(_dirIdentity(100n)) // SAME identity as authorized
+
+ const error = await safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", {
+ expectedResolvedPath: targetPath,
+ expectedAncestorIdentities: [{ dir, dev: 1n, ino: 100n }],
+ platform: "linux",
+ }).catch((caught: unknown) => caught)
+
+ expect(error).toBeInstanceOf(AncestorReplacedError)
+ expect((error as AncestorReplacedError).message).toContain("no longer resolves to the authorized location")
+ // Nothing was published at either location.
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ expect(fs.link).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+
+ it("propagates a transient realpath failure instead of reporting a replaced ancestor", async () => {
+ // EACCES/EIO while re-validating the authorized ancestry is not a containment
+ // violation: reporting AncestorReplacedError would point the user (and the
+ // model) at a security problem that is not there.
+ const dir = path.resolve("/tmp/test-dir")
+ const targetPath = path.join(dir, "target.txt")
+ const denied = Object.assign(new Error("EACCES: permission denied"), { code: "EACCES" })
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockImplementation(async (p) => {
+ if (path.resolve(String(p)) === dir) throw denied
+ return targetPath
+ })
+ vi.mocked(fs.stat).mockResolvedValue(_dirIdentity(100n))
+
+ const error = await safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", {
+ expectedResolvedPath: targetPath,
+ expectedAncestorIdentities: [{ dir, dev: 1n, ino: 100n }],
+ platform: "linux",
+ }).catch((caught: unknown) => caught)
+
+ expect(error).toBe(denied)
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ expect(fs.link).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+
+ it("publishes when the recorded ancestor identities are unchanged", async () => {
+ // The pin must not turn every guarded write into a false rejection: an unchanged
+ // directory chain publishes normally.
+ const dir = path.resolve("/tmp/test-dir")
+ const targetPath = path.join(dir, "target.txt")
+ // The unchanged chain resolves where it names: the ancestor realpath check
+ // sees the authorized directory itself, not a moved location.
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockImplementation(async (p) => (path.resolve(String(p)) === dir ? dir : targetPath))
+ vi.mocked(fs.stat).mockResolvedValue(_dirIdentity(100n))
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", {
+ expectedResolvedPath: targetPath,
+ expectedAncestorIdentities: [{ dir, dev: 1n, ino: 100n }],
+ platform: "linux",
+ })
+
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText"), targetPath)
+ })
+
+ it("refuses the publish when an authorized ancestor disappears before the commit", async () => {
+ const dir = path.resolve("/tmp/test-dir")
+ const targetPath = path.join(dir, "target.txt")
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fs.stat).mockRejectedValue(Object.assign(new Error("ENOENT"), { code: "ENOENT" }))
+
+ const error = await safeWriteText(targetPath, "new data", {
+ expectedResolvedPath: targetPath,
+ expectedAncestorIdentities: [{ dir, dev: 1n, ino: 100n }],
+ platform: "linux",
+ }).catch((caught: unknown) => caught)
+
+ expect(error).toBeInstanceOf(AncestorReplacedError)
+ expect((error as AncestorReplacedError).message).toContain("no longer exists")
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ expect(fs.link).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+})
+
+// ── Test 12: lock key, staging path, and post-commit durability ─────────────
+
+describe("resolveLockKey", () => {
+ beforeEach(() => mockDefaults())
+
+ it("canonicalizes the parent directory, not just the file", async () => {
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockImplementation(async (target) => {
+ const key = String(target)
+ if (key === "/tmp/linkdir/file.json") return "/real/dir/file.json"
+ if (key === "/real/dir") return "/real/dir"
+ return key
+ })
+
+ // The key is the canonical directory plus the basename, so a symlinked
+ // ancestor and its referent share one lock.
+ await expect(resolveLockKey("/tmp/linkdir/file.json")).resolves.toBe(path.join("/real/dir", "file.json"))
+ })
+
+ it("computes a key for a dangling link, which resolvePublishTarget refuses", async () => {
+ const enoent = Object.assign(new Error("ENOENT: no such file or directory"), { code: "ENOENT" })
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockRejectedValue(enoent)
+ vi.mocked(fs.lstat).mockResolvedValue(_fileStats(true))
+ // The walk ends when readlink throws, because a plain file is not a link.
+ // Answering every call with the same value would let a walk that never
+ // stopped return the same key, so the mock has to distinguish the link from
+ // the referent and the test has to check that the walk stopped.
+ const notALink = Object.assign(new Error("EINVAL: not a link"), { code: "EINVAL" })
+ vi.mocked(fs.readlink).mockImplementation(async (target) => {
+ if (String(target) === "/tmp/linkdir/file.json") return "referent.json"
+ throw notALink
+ })
+
+ // Mid-commit a peer writer renames the referent away and back, so the key
+ // must still be computable while the link dangles.
+ await expect(resolveLockKey("/tmp/linkdir/file.json")).resolves.toBe(
+ path.resolve(path.join("/tmp/linkdir", "referent.json")),
+ )
+ // Two calls means the walk stopped at the referent: the link, then one more
+ // on the referent that reports it is not a link. A walk that never stopped
+ // would run the full 8 steps.
+ expect(fs.readlink).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
+ })
+
+ it("terminates on a two-link cycle instead of walking forever", async () => {
+ const enoent = Object.assign(new Error("ENOENT: no such file or directory"), { code: "ENOENT" })
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockRejectedValue(enoent)
+ vi.mocked(fs.lstat).mockResolvedValue(_fileStats(true))
+ // Every readlink answers with the same link, so an unbounded walk would
+ // never end; the bounded walk returns the key it actually reached.
+ vi.mocked(fs.readlink).mockImplementation(async () => "a.json")
+
+ await expect(resolveLockKey("/tmp/linkdir/a.json")).resolves.toBe(
+ path.resolve(path.join("/tmp/linkdir", "a.json")),
+ )
+ expect(fs.readlink).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(8)
+ })
+})
+
+describe("caller-supplied staging path", () => {
+ beforeEach(() => mockDefaults())
+
+ it("rejects a staging file outside the target's directory before writing anything", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+
+ // A rename across filesystems fails with EXDEV, and a path elsewhere lets
+ // a caller publish an unrelated file onto the target.
+ await expect(
+ safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { tempPath: "/tmp/other-dir/x.tmp", platform: "linux" }),
+ ).rejects.toThrow(StagingPathError)
+ expect(fsSync.openSync).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+
+ it("rejects a staging path that is a symlink", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fs.lstat).mockResolvedValue(_fileStats(true))
+
+ // Renaming a link over the target publishes whatever the link points at.
+ await expect(
+ safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { tempPath: "/tmp/test-dir/x.tmp", platform: "linux" }),
+ ).rejects.toThrow(StagingPathError)
+ expect(fsSync.openSync).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+})
+
+describe("cleanup before a rollback failure is reported", () => {
+ beforeEach(() => mockDefaults())
+
+ it("releases the staged file, its copy and its own staging directory before throwing", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockResolvedValue(targetPath)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+ // The commit rename is the only rename in this flow and it fails.
+ vi.mocked(fs.rename).mockRejectedValue(new Error("ENOSPC"))
+
+ await expect(safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { backup: true, platform: "linux" })).rejects.toThrow("ENOSPC")
+
+ // The staging file and this write's own directory must not leak, and neither may
+ // the backup copy: the target still holds the pre-write content on disk.
+ expect(fs.unlink).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"))
+ expect(fs.unlink).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText.bak_"))
+ const stagingDirs = vi.mocked(fsSync.mkdirSync).mock.calls.map((call) => String(call[0]))
+ expect(stagingDirs.length).toBe(1)
+ expect(fs.rmdir).toHaveBeenCalledWith(stagingDirs[0])
+
+ const failingRenameOrder = vi.mocked(fs.rename).mock.invocationCallOrder[0]
+ const unlinkOrder = vi.mocked(fs.unlink).mock.invocationCallOrder[0]
+ const rmdirOrder = vi.mocked(fs.rmdir).mock.invocationCallOrder[0]
+ expect(unlinkOrder).toBeGreaterThan(failingRenameOrder)
+ expect(rmdirOrder).toBeGreaterThan(failingRenameOrder)
+ })
+})
+
+describe("resolvePublishTarget", () => {
+ beforeEach(() => mockDefaults())
+
+ it("propagates an lstat failure that is not ENOENT instead of falling back to the link path", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ const enoent = Object.assign(new Error("ENOENT: no such file or directory"), { code: "ENOENT" })
+ const eacces = Object.assign(new Error("EACCES: permission denied"), { code: "EACCES" })
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockRejectedValue(enoent)
+ vi.mocked(fs.lstat).mockRejectedValue(eacces)
+
+ // A failed lstat says nothing about whether the path is a link, so the
+ // fallback would publish through a link we were not allowed to inspect.
+ await expect(safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { platform: "linux" })).rejects.toBe(eacces)
+ expect(fs.rename).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+ })
+
+ it("still falls back to the given path when lstat also reports the path as absent", async () => {
+ const targetPath = "/tmp/test-dir/target.txt"
+ const enoent = Object.assign(new Error("ENOENT: no such file or directory"), { code: "ENOENT" })
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockRejectedValue(enoent)
+ vi.mocked(fs.lstat).mockRejectedValue(enoent)
+ vi.mocked(fsSync.openSync).mockReturnValue(1)
+
+ await safeWriteText(targetPath, "data", { platform: "linux" })
+
+ // The fallback is the resolved path, not the string that was handed in.
+ expect(fs.rename).toHaveBeenCalledWith(expect.stringContaining("safeWriteText_"), path.resolve(targetPath))
+ })
+})
+
+describe("resolveLockKey when the parent directory does not exist yet", () => {
+ beforeEach(() => mockDefaults())
+
+ it("canonicalizes through the nearest existing ancestor instead of the literal parent", async () => {
+ // Two writers must take ONE lock: the one whose parent directory is already there,
+ // and the one racing to create it. Resolving only the immediate parent and falling
+ // back to its literal spelling on ENOENT gave them different keys whenever an
+ // ancestor was a symlink or a Windows short name, so a read-modify-write under the
+ // advisory lock lost one side.
+ const aliasDir = path.resolve("/tmp/alias-parent")
+ const canonicalDir = path.resolve("/tmp/real-parent")
+ const nested = path.join(aliasDir, "nested")
+ const target = path.join(nested, "history_item.json")
+ vi.mocked(fs.lstat).mockResolvedValue(_fileStats(false))
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockImplementation(async (p) => {
+ const s = String(p)
+ if (s === target || s === nested) {
+ throw Object.assign(new Error("ENOENT: no such file or directory"), { code: "ENOENT" })
+ }
+ if (s === aliasDir) {
+ return canonicalDir
+ }
+ return s
+ })
+
+ expect(await resolveLockKey(target)).toBe(path.join(canonicalDir, "nested", "history_item.json"))
+ })
+
+ it("propagates a realpath failure that is not ENOENT instead of guessing a key", async () => {
+ // A realpath that fails for another reason says nothing about the canonical form;
+ // returning a literal key would silently put this writer on a different lock.
+ const target = path.join(path.resolve("/tmp/test-dir"), "history_item.json")
+ vi.mocked(fs.lstat).mockResolvedValue(_fileStats(false))
+ // Not a link: the walk must reach the canonicalization step, which is where the
+ // non-ENOENT failure has to surface.
+ vi.mocked(fs.readlink).mockRejectedValue(
+ Object.assign(new Error("ENOENT: no such file or directory"), { code: "ENOENT" }),
+ )
+ vi.mocked(fs.realpath).mockImplementation(async (p) => {
+ if (String(p) === target) return target
+ throw Object.assign(new Error("EACCES: permission denied"), { code: "EACCES" })
+ })
+
+ await expect(resolveLockKey(target)).rejects.toThrow("EACCES")
+ })
+})
diff --git a/src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts b/src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9701d4b3b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,865 @@
+import * as fs from "fs/promises"
+import * as fsSync from "fs"
+import * as path from "path"
+import { execFile } from "child_process"
+
+import { getErrorCode } from "../../utils/errorCode"
+
+export interface SafeWriteTextOptions {
+ /**
+ * When true, preserve the old-file semantics: rename target -> backup first,
+ * then stage and commit; after a successful commit delete the backup copy.
+ * On failure the backup is never rolled back to the target: it is a copy taken
+ * before staging began, not a restore source - the teardown discards it and the
+ * original error propagates. What the target holds after a rejected write
+ * depends on where the failure landed: the original file, the staged
+ * replacement, or - if the process died between the two renames - nothing,
+ * until a later writer's recovery pass restores the orphaned backup.
+ * When false (default) the atomic rename simply replaces the target --
+ * crash-safe window is zero.
+ */
+ backup?: boolean
+
+ /**
+ * Platform override for testing. When omitted the real process.platform
+ * value is used. Set to "win32" or "linux" / "darwin" from tests so that
+ * both branches are reachable without needing a real Windows runner.
+ */
+ platform?: string
+
+ /**
+ * Custom execFile runner for testing (e.g. vi.fn). When omitted the real
+ * child_process.execFile is used.
+ */
+ execFileRunner?: typeof execFile
+
+ /**
+ * Pre-written temp path to use for the commit phase. When provided,
+ * safeWriteText skips creating its own staging file and uses this path
+ * instead (it still fsyncs before rename). Useful when a caller has
+ * already written data to a temp file via a custom stream.
+ */
+ tempPath?: string
+
+ /**
+ * Commit only if the target name does NOT exist at commit time.
+ * rename(2) has no no-replace form - it silently displaces a target that another
+ * writer created after the caller's absence check - so the commit is done with
+ * link(2) instead, which fails EEXIST for an existing name (and does not follow a
+ * symlink placed at that name). A conditional create therefore cannot overwrite a
+ * file it never saw.
+ */
+ failIfExist?: boolean
+
+ /**
+ * The publish target the caller already authorized.
+ * A caller that checks workspace containment and then calls this primitive resolves
+ * the path twice: once for its own decision and once here. If a link is swapped in
+ * between the two, the decision was about a different file than the one published.
+ * Passing the authorized value makes that drift fatal instead of silent.
+ */
+ expectedResolvedPath?: string
+
+ /**
+ * The directories the caller walked when it authorized this target, with the
+ * (dev, ino) identity each had at that moment.
+ *
+ * expectedResolvedPath pins the NAME this write publishes; it cannot see a parent
+ * directory being replaced by a link between the caller's containment check and the
+ * commit. Re-checking the ancestor identities immediately before the commit makes a
+ * swapped parent fatal too: the publish then aborts instead of writing through the new
+ * link. Node has no descriptor-relative rename, so a swap that lands after this check
+ * and before the rename is not eliminable here - it narrows the window to the commit
+ * itself rather than the whole guard.
+ * The identity check is paired with a realpath comparison: moving a directory
+ * preserves (dev, ino), and replacing its old name with a symlink to the moved
+ * location keeps stat() matching while sending the commit to the new location.
+ * The name must still resolve to the authorized location, not merely to the
+ * same inode.
+ */
+ expectedAncestorIdentities?: DirectoryIdentity[]
+}
+
+/** One directory's on-disk identity, read with bigint stats so NTFS 64-bit values survive. */
+export type DirectoryIdentity = {
+ dir: string
+ dev: bigint
+ ino: bigint
+}
+
+/**
+ * The backup copy could not be created AND the partial copy could not be removed.
+ * The write failed either way, but the leftover is a copy of the previous content that
+ * is still on disk: its path travels on the error so the caller can remove it, instead
+ * of the cleanup silently discarding the only reference to it.
+ */
+export class OrphanedBackupError extends Error {
+ readonly orphanedBackupPath: string
+ readonly originalError: unknown
+ readonly cleanupError: unknown
+ constructor(backupPath: string, targetPath: string, cause: unknown, cleanupError: unknown) {
+ super(_orphanedBackupMessage(targetPath, backupPath, cause, cleanupError), { cause })
+ this.name = "OrphanedBackupError"
+ this.orphanedBackupPath = backupPath
+ this.originalError = cause
+ this.cleanupError = cleanupError
+ }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The write committed and the content is published, but the pre-write backup could not be
+ * removed after two attempts (a transient handle - antivirus scanner, indexer - usually
+ * causes this). Returning success would hide a stale copy of the previous content that
+ * only a recovery tool can find, so the path travels on this error instead.
+ */
+export class OrphanedPublishedBackupError extends Error {
+ readonly publishedPath: string
+ readonly orphanedBackupPath: string
+ readonly cleanupError: unknown
+
+ constructor(targetPath: string, backupPath: string, cleanupError: unknown) {
+ const reason = cleanupError instanceof Error ? cleanupError.message : String(cleanupError)
+ super(
+ `safeWriteText: the content was published at ${targetPath}, but the pre-write copy at ${backupPath} ` +
+ `could not be removed (${reason}). The copy is still on disk and should be removed by the caller or a recovery tool.`,
+ { cause: cleanupError },
+ )
+ this.name = "OrphanedPublishedBackupError"
+ this.publishedPath = targetPath
+ this.orphanedBackupPath = backupPath
+ this.cleanupError = cleanupError
+ }
+}
+
+function _orphanedBackupMessage(targetPath: string, backupPath: string, cause: unknown, cleanupError: unknown): string {
+ const reason = (error: unknown): string => (error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error))
+ return (
+ `safeWriteText: could not create the backup of ${targetPath} (${reason(cause)}), and the ` +
+ `partial copy at ${backupPath} could not be removed (${reason(cleanupError)}). The copy is ` +
+ `still on disk and must be deleted.`
+ )
+}
+
+/**
+ * A caller-supplied staging path that is not a file this write may publish: it
+ * sits outside the target's directory (so the commit rename would cross
+ * filesystems) or is not a regular file. Rejecting it before any write keeps the
+ * target from being replaced by whatever the path points at.
+ */
+export class StagingPathError extends Error {
+ readonly stagingPath: string
+
+ constructor(message: string, stagingPath: string) {
+ super(message)
+ this.name = "StagingPathError"
+ this.stagingPath = stagingPath
+ }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The commit rename succeeded but the parent-directory fsync did not, so the
+ * directory entry is not known to be durable. The content is at the target; the
+ * caller cannot assume it survives a crash. Reported as its own error so a
+ * successful return never claims durability the filesystem did not grant.
+ */
+export class PostCommitDurabilityError extends Error {
+ readonly targetPath: string
+
+ constructor(targetPath: string, cause: unknown, copiedTargetFsync = false) {
+ super(
+ copiedTargetFsync
+ ? "The exclusive copy committed but the copied target could not be fsynced -- the content is at the target path reported on this error, and it may not survive a crash on a volume without hard links."
+ : "The rename committed but the parent directory could not be fsynced -- the content is at the target path reported on this error, and the directory entry may not be durable.",
+ { cause },
+ )
+ this.name = "PostCommitDurabilityError"
+ this.targetPath = targetPath
+ }
+}
+
+/**
+ * A conditional create (failIfExist) found a target at commit time. The write is
+ * refused without touching it: whatever is at the path was created by someone else
+ * and stays exactly as it is.
+ */
+export class TargetExistsError extends Error {
+ readonly targetPath: string
+ constructor(targetPath: string) {
+ super(`A file already exists at ${targetPath} -- the no-replace commit refused it.`)
+ this.name = "TargetExistsError"
+ this.targetPath = targetPath
+ }
+}
+
+/**
+ * A conditional create (failIfExist) found that the volume hosting the target has
+ * no atomic no-replace primitive: link(2) reported that hard links do not exist
+ * here, and publishing by copy would put bytes at the final name that readers can
+ * observe mid-copy. Nothing is published - the write fails closed so a retry on a
+ * capable volume (or a caller that accepts non-atomic publication) decides.
+ */
+export class UnsupportedFilesystemError extends Error {
+ readonly targetPath: string
+ constructor(targetPath: string, cause: unknown) {
+ super(
+ `Filesystem hosting ${targetPath} has no atomic no-replace commit primitive -- the guarded create refused to publish by copy.`,
+ { cause },
+ )
+ this.name = "UnsupportedFilesystemError"
+ this.targetPath = targetPath
+ }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The path resolved to something other than the target the caller authorized.
+ * Nothing is staged or published: a link swapped in after the caller's containment
+ * check would otherwise send the write to a file that check never covered.
+ */
+export class TargetMovedError extends Error {
+ readonly authorizedPath: string
+ readonly resolvedPath: string
+ constructor(authorizedPath: string, resolvedPath: string) {
+ super(
+ `The write was authorized for ${authorizedPath}, but that path now resolves to ${resolvedPath} -- nothing was published.`,
+ )
+ this.name = "TargetMovedError"
+ this.authorizedPath = authorizedPath
+ this.resolvedPath = resolvedPath
+ }
+}
+
+/**
+ * A directory the caller walked on its way to the authorized target is no longer the
+ * directory it was: it was removed, replaced, or turned into a link to somewhere else.
+ * Publishing through it would act on a decision that was never made about the file now
+ * reachable there, so the commit is aborted.
+ */
+export class AncestorReplacedError extends Error {
+ readonly directory: string
+ constructor(directory: string, reason: string) {
+ super(`A directory on the authorized path (${directory}) ${reason} -- nothing was published.`)
+ this.name = "AncestorReplacedError"
+ this.directory = directory
+ }
+}
+// -- helpers ---------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/** Generate a unique temp file name in the given directory. */
+function _tempName(dir: string, prefix: string): string {
+ return path.join(dir, "." + prefix + "_" + Date.now() + "_" + Math.random().toString(36).substring(2) + ".tmp")
+}
+
+/** Create a private per-write staging sub-directory inside *dir*. The name is
+ * unique per write, so concurrent writes never collide on their temp names and
+ * never remove a staging directory another write is still using: with one shared
+ * name, one write's best-effort rmdir could delete the directory another write
+ * had just created but not yet opened, failing its openSync with ENOENT. */
+function _stagingDir(dir: string): string {
+ const sd = path.join(dir, ".file-safety-staging_" + Date.now() + "_" + Math.random().toString(36).substring(2))
+ // mode:0o700 protects a freshly created staging dir; the best-effort chmod
+ // repairs a pre-existing one (mkdirSync with recursive:true never chmods an
+ // existing directory), so staged temp files are never group/world readable.
+ fsSync.mkdirSync(sd, { recursive: true, mode: 0o700 })
+ try {
+ fsSync.chmodSync(sd, 0o700)
+ } catch {
+ // best-effort: chmod denied or unavailable; a fresh dir was still
+ // created with the requested mode
+ }
+ return sd
+}
+
+/** Save the DACL of *srcPath* to a dump file on Windows.
+ * Returns true when the dump was written successfully; false otherwise.
+ * Never throws — callers treat failure as "skip DACL handling". */
+async function _saveDaclWindows(srcPath: string, dumpPath: string, execFileRunner?: typeof execFile): Promise {
+ const runner = execFileRunner ?? execFile
+ try {
+ await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+ runner("icacls", [srcPath, "/save", dumpPath, "/T"], { windowsHide: true }, (err) =>
+ err ? reject(err) : resolve(),
+ )
+ })
+ return true
+ } catch {
+ return false
+ }
+}
+
+/** Restore a DACL dump onto *dirPath* on Windows.
+ * Best-effort: content is already committed, so failure is non-fatal. */
+async function _restoreDaclWindows(dirPath: string, dumpPath: string, execFileRunner?: typeof execFile): Promise {
+ const runner = execFileRunner ?? execFile
+ try {
+ await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+ runner("icacls", [dirPath, "/restore", dumpPath], { windowsHide: true }, (err) =>
+ err ? reject(err) : resolve(),
+ )
+ })
+ } catch {
+ // best-effort; content already committed
+ }
+}
+
+// -- public API ------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/**
+ * Resolve the publish target: the symlink referent when the given path is an
+ * existing symlink, the path itself otherwise. Only ENOENT (target absent yet)
+ * may fall back to the given path; any other resolution error (EACCES, EIO, ...)
+ * propagates so a broken or unreadable symlink is never written through its
+ * link path. Callers that stage a temp file themselves must stage it beside
+ * the resolved path: the commit is a rename onto the referent, and a rename
+ * across filesystems fails with EXDEV.
+ */
+export async function resolvePublishTarget(absoluteFilePath: string): Promise {
+ return fs.realpath(absoluteFilePath).catch(async (error: unknown) => {
+ if (getErrorCode(error) !== "ENOENT") throw error
+ // ENOENT also covers a dangling symlink, which must never be written through.
+ // Only a lstat that also reports the path as absent may fall back to the
+ // given path; a real lstat failure (EACCES, EIO) says nothing about whether
+ // the path is a link, so falling back would write through a link we were
+ // simply not allowed to inspect.
+ const linkStat = await fs.lstat(absoluteFilePath).catch((lstatError: unknown) => {
+ if (getErrorCode(lstatError) === "ENOENT") return undefined
+ throw lstatError
+ })
+ if (linkStat?.isSymbolicLink()) throw error
+ return await canonicalizeNearestAncestor(absoluteFilePath)
+ })
+}
+
+/**
+ * Canonicalize the parent directory and re-join the basename. fs.realpath
+ * canonicalizes every component, including a symlinked ancestor directory or a
+ * Windows 8.3 short name, so a lock key must be canonical even when the file
+ * itself is not there yet -- otherwise the key for one file depends on whether
+ * the file exists when the key is computed, and two writers take two locks.
+ */
+
+async function canonicalDirKey(absoluteFilePath: string): Promise {
+ const dirPath = path.dirname(absoluteFilePath)
+ // Walk up to the nearest ancestor that EXISTS, canonicalize that, and re-join the
+ // components that are not there yet. Falling back to the unresolved spelling of the
+ // whole parent - what a single realpath(...).catch(() => dirPath) used to do - makes
+ // the key depend on whether the directory happens to exist: a writer whose parent is
+ // already there canonicalizes through a symlinked ancestor (or a short name) while a
+ // writer racing to create the same directory gets the literal spelling, so the two
+ // take different locks for one file and a read-modify-write loses one side.
+ // A realpath failure that is not "not there yet" says nothing about the canonical
+ // form, so it is propagated rather than papered over with a key that may be wrong.
+ let cursor = dirPath
+ const missing: string[] = []
+ for (;;) {
+ const canonical = await fs.realpath(cursor).catch((error: unknown) => {
+ if (getErrorCode(error) === "ENOENT") return undefined
+ throw error
+ })
+ if (canonical !== undefined) {
+ return path.join(canonical, ...missing.reverse(), path.basename(absoluteFilePath))
+ }
+ missing.push(path.basename(cursor))
+ const parent = path.dirname(cursor)
+ if (parent === cursor) {
+ // Every component up to the root is missing: there is nothing to canonicalize
+ // against, and the literal path is the only key left.
+ return path.join(dirPath, path.basename(absoluteFilePath))
+ }
+ cursor = parent
+ }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Canonicalize the nearest EXISTING ancestor and re-append the missing components.
+ * The guard hands back a pin produced exactly this way (guardedWrite#realpathNearest),
+ * so an absent target has to resolve identically here: a lexical fallback differs from
+ * that pin whenever an ancestor is a symlink, and the create would then abort with
+ * TargetMovedError even though nothing moved.
+ */
+async function canonicalizeNearestAncestor(absoluteFilePath: string): Promise {
+ const missing: string[] = []
+ let cursor = absoluteFilePath
+ for (;;) {
+ try {
+ const realPath = await fs.realpath(cursor)
+ return missing.length > 0 ? path.join(realPath, ...missing.reverse()) : realPath
+ } catch (error: unknown) {
+ const code = getErrorCode(error)
+ if (code !== "ENOENT" && code !== "ENOTDIR") {
+ // A real inspection failure (EACCES, EIO) says nothing about the path's
+ // identity. Returning a lexical key here would silently canonicalize a
+ // different path than the guard's pin, so fail closed instead.
+ throw error
+ }
+ const parent = path.dirname(cursor)
+ if (parent === cursor) return absoluteFilePath
+ missing.push(path.basename(cursor))
+ cursor = parent
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Lock key for a publish target: the symlink referent when the path is an
+ * existing symlink, the path itself otherwise. Unlike resolvePublishTarget this
+ * tolerates a dangling link, because the lock key has to be computable while a
+ * peer writer is mid-commit (backup mode renames the referent away and back).
+ * The walk is bounded so a two-link cycle terminates, and every key it returns is
+ * canonicalized through canonicalDirKey.
+ */
+export async function resolveLockKey(absoluteFilePath: string): Promise {
+ try {
+ return await canonicalDirKey(await resolvePublishTarget(absoluteFilePath))
+ } catch {
+ // A real readlink throws for anything that is not a link, so a normal chain
+ // ends the walk. Two links that point at each other never would, so the
+ // walk is bounded and callers use the key they actually reached.
+ let key = absoluteFilePath
+ for (let depth = 0; depth < 8; depth++) {
+ const target = await fs.readlink(key).catch(() => undefined)
+ if (target === undefined) return await canonicalDirKey(key)
+ key = await canonicalDirKey(path.resolve(path.dirname(key), target))
+ }
+ return await canonicalDirKey(key)
+ }
+}
+
+export async function safeWriteText(
+ filePath: string,
+ content: string | Uint8Array,
+ options?: SafeWriteTextOptions,
+): Promise {
+ const absoluteFilePath = path.resolve(filePath)
+
+ // Resolve the symlink referent (see resolvePublishTarget).
+ const targetPath = await resolvePublishTarget(absoluteFilePath)
+
+ // The caller authorized a specific resolved path; publishing at a different one
+ // would act on a decision that was never made about this file.
+ if (options?.expectedResolvedPath && path.resolve(options.expectedResolvedPath) !== targetPath) {
+ throw new TargetMovedError(options.expectedResolvedPath, targetPath)
+ }
+
+ const dirPath = path.dirname(targetPath)
+
+ // Ensure parent directory exists (mirrors safeWriteJson behaviour).
+ await fs.mkdir(dirPath, { recursive: true })
+ await fs.access(dirPath)
+
+ // Create the staging directory only when we generate the temp file there;
+ // callers supplying their own tempPath (e.g. safeWriteJson) must not be left
+ // with an empty .file-safety-staging directory behind. Track the directory this
+ // write created so its cleanup removes its own directory, not a shared one.
+ let stagingDir: string | null = null
+ let tempPath: string
+ // Whether the commit rename has consumed the staging file. Cleanup is allowed to unlink
+ // the staging path only while this write still owns it: after the rename the name belongs to
+ // whatever is filed under it next, and a caller-supplied staging name is reused by the next
+ // write to the same target.
+ let stagingCommitted = false
+ if (options?.tempPath) {
+ // A caller-supplied staging file is only safe when it is the file this
+ // write is staging, not an arbitrary path. Two properties are checked:
+ // it must sit beside the resolved target (a rename across filesystems
+ // fails with EXDEV, and a path elsewhere lets a caller publish an
+ // unrelated file onto the target), and it must be a regular file rather
+ // than a link — renaming a link over the target publishes whatever the
+ // link points at, which is the same trust problem as writing through a
+ // dangling symlink in resolvePublishTarget.
+ const supplied = path.resolve(options.tempPath)
+ if (path.dirname(supplied) !== path.resolve(dirPath)) {
+ throw new StagingPathError(
+ `Staging file must sit in the target's directory (${dirPath}), got ${supplied}`,
+ supplied,
+ )
+ }
+ // Naming the target is not staging it: a staging file that resolves onto
+ // the publish target would let the commit rename move the target file
+ // onto itself, and the fsync and permission steps below would then act on
+ // the target as if it were the staged bytes.
+ if (supplied === targetPath) {
+ throw new StagingPathError(
+ `Staging file must not name the publish target (${targetPath}), got ${supplied}`,
+ supplied,
+ )
+ }
+ const stagingStat = await fs.lstat(supplied)
+ if (stagingStat.isSymbolicLink() || !stagingStat.isFile()) {
+ throw new StagingPathError(
+ `Staging file must be a regular file, not ${stagingStat.isSymbolicLink() ? "a symlink" : "another file type"}`,
+ supplied,
+ )
+ }
+ // The caller's own path is used as given; only the check is canonical.
+ tempPath = options.tempPath
+ } else {
+ stagingDir = _stagingDir(dirPath)
+ tempPath = _tempName(stagingDir, "safeWriteText")
+ }
+
+ let backupPath: string | null = null
+ let releaseBackupOnSuccess = false
+ // Non-null only when the win32 step-2 block saved a successful DACL dump:
+ // it gates the step-5 restore and is tracked for the cleanup unlinks.
+ let daclDumpPath: string | null = null
+
+ try {
+ // -- Step 1: write content to staging temp file -------------------
+ if (!options?.tempPath) {
+ // Preserve the existing target's permissions: the staging file must
+ // not be published wider than the file it replaces (a 0o600 target
+ // must not become 0o644 through the atomic rename).
+ // Encode before opening the staging file: an encoding Node cannot
+ // represent must not leave a half-written temp file behind.
+ // A string is encoded as UTF-8; bytes handed in by the caller (the
+ // extension host encodes a document with VS Code's own codec, which
+ // covers the legacy code pages Node cannot represent) are published
+ // unchanged.
+ const buffer = Buffer.from(content)
+ let targetMode = 0o644 // default for a fresh target
+ let targetExists = false
+ try {
+ targetMode = fsSync.statSync(targetPath).mode & 0o777
+ targetExists = true
+ } catch (error: unknown) {
+ if (getErrorCode(error) !== "ENOENT") throw error
+ // target does not exist yet - keep the default
+ }
+ // openSync's creation mode is narrowed by the process umask, so an
+ // existing 0o664 target would be published as 0o644 through the
+ // rename. Apply the existing target's exact mode on the fd, as the
+ // caller-staged branch does; a fresh target keeps the default mode.
+ const fd = fsSync.openSync(tempPath, "w", targetMode)
+ try {
+ if (targetExists) {
+ fsSync.fchmodSync(fd, targetMode)
+ }
+ // Loop until every byte is written: writeSync can report a short
+ // (partial) write, and publishing a truncated staging file would
+ // commit corrupt content.
+ let offset = 0
+ // A zero-byte result means the filesystem stopped accepting progress;
+ // advancing nothing would spin here forever and the cleanup below would
+ // never run. Fail the write so the staged file is torn down instead.
+ while (offset < buffer.length) {
+ const written = fsSync.writeSync(fd, buffer, offset, buffer.length - offset)
+ if (written <= 0) {
+ throw new Error(`Staging write made no progress at offset ${offset} of ${buffer.length} bytes`)
+ }
+ offset += written
+ }
+ fsSync.fsyncSync(fd)
+ } finally {
+ fsSync.closeSync(fd)
+ }
+ } else {
+ // Preserve the existing target's mode (CWE-732): the caller-staged
+ // temp carries its own creation mode, and publishing it as-is would
+ // widen a restrictive target (e.g. 0o600 -> 0o644) through rename.
+ // The mode is applied with fchmodSync on the open fd (AFTER openSync):
+ // chmodSync on the path before the open would make a read-only target
+ // (0o400/0o444) fail openSync(tempPath, "r+") with EACCES.
+ let targetMode: number | null = null
+ try {
+ targetMode = fsSync.statSync(targetPath).mode & 0o777
+ } catch (error: unknown) {
+ if (getErrorCode(error) !== "ENOENT") throw error
+ // target does not exist yet - keep the temp's default mode
+ }
+ const fd = fsSync.openSync(tempPath, "r+")
+ try {
+ if (targetMode !== null) {
+ fsSync.fchmodSync(fd, targetMode)
+ }
+ fsSync.fsyncSync(fd)
+ } finally {
+ fsSync.closeSync(fd)
+ }
+ }
+
+ // -- Step 2 (win32): save DACL BEFORE backup rename ---------------
+ const platform = options?.platform ?? process.platform
+ if (platform === "win32") {
+ try {
+ await fs.access(targetPath) // target exists?
+ const dumpPath = _tempName(dirPath, "safeWriteText.acl")
+ const saved = await _saveDaclWindows(targetPath, dumpPath, options?.execFileRunner)
+ if (saved) {
+ // Only a successfully saved dump may be restored onto the
+ // committed file (step 5).
+ daclDumpPath = dumpPath
+ } else {
+ // A failed icacls may have left a partial dump behind;
+ // remove it now (best-effort) so no partial dump survives and
+ // no later step can restore from it.
+ await fs.unlink(dumpPath).catch(() => {})
+ }
+ } catch {
+ // target does not exist or access failed — no DACL handling
+ daclDumpPath = null
+ }
+ }
+
+ try {
+ // -- Step 2b: re-validate the authorized ancestry before committing --
+ // The caller decided containment by walking this directory chain. A parent
+ // swapped for a link to outside that chain would send the commit somewhere the
+ // caller never authorized, even though expectedResolvedPath still matches (the
+ // name is unchanged). Compare each recorded identity now, before anything is
+ // moved into place.
+ if (options?.expectedAncestorIdentities) {
+ for (const expected of options.expectedAncestorIdentities) {
+ const current = await fs.stat(expected.dir, { bigint: true }).catch((error: unknown) => {
+ if (getErrorCode(error) === "ENOENT") {
+ throw new AncestorReplacedError(expected.dir, "no longer exists")
+ }
+ throw error
+ })
+ if (current.dev !== expected.dev || current.ino !== expected.ino) {
+ throw new AncestorReplacedError(expected.dir, "is no longer the directory that was authorized")
+ }
+ // A move preserves dev+ino, so the identity check above passes for a
+ // directory that was relocated and whose old name was replaced by a
+ // symlink to the moved location - stat follows that link. The commit
+ // below takes path strings and would follow it too, publishing at the
+ // moved location outside the chain the caller walked. Require that the
+ // authorized name still resolves to the very location it named.
+ // Only a vanished name is a containment violation. A transient EACCES
+ // or EIO would otherwise be reported as a replaced ancestor, pointing
+ // the user at a security problem that is not there - mirror the stat
+ // call above, which maps only ENOENT and rethrows the rest.
+ const resolvedDir = await fs.realpath(expected.dir).catch((error: unknown) => {
+ const code = getErrorCode(error)
+ if (code === "ENOENT" || code === "ENOTDIR") {
+ return undefined
+ }
+ throw error
+ })
+ if (resolvedDir === undefined || path.resolve(resolvedDir) !== path.resolve(expected.dir)) {
+ throw new AncestorReplacedError(expected.dir, "no longer resolves to the authorized location")
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ // -- Step 3 (backup:true): durable copy target -> backup ----
+ if (options?.backup) {
+ try {
+ await fs.access(targetPath)
+ backupPath = _tempName(dirPath, "safeWriteText.bak")
+ // Copy, never move. Renaming the target away leaves the canonical path absent for
+ // the whole commit window: readers see a missing file, and a concurrent
+ // writer can create a new target that a later rollback would destroy. A copy
+ // keeps the target present, so the step 4 rename is the only change to the
+ // canonical path. The copy is flushed so the retained content survives a crash.
+ try {
+ // Create the destination BEFORE any content exists at it, with the mode fixed
+ // at open time. fs.copyFile picks the destination mode itself (the platform
+ // creation mask subject to umask on some platforms, the source's mode - or its
+ // read-only attribute - on others), so letting it create the file would either
+ // leave a restrictive target's bytes briefly readable to others, or leave the
+ // copy unwritable so the fsync open below fails with EACCES. open() ignores its
+ // mode argument for an existing file, so this 0o600 survives the copy on POSIX;
+ // the chmod afterwards is what clears a copied read-only attribute on Windows
+ // and keeps a backup of a permissive file private.
+ const seedFd = fsSync.openSync(backupPath, "wx", 0o600)
+ // Single close, no retry: on POSIX close(2) can release the descriptor before it
+ // reports an error (and leaves its state unspecified after EINTR), so a second
+ // close could release a descriptor some other operation has meanwhile reused.
+ // The failure propagates; backupPath is already recorded, so the outer cleanup
+ // removes the seeded file instead of leaving it beside the target.
+ fsSync.closeSync(seedFd)
+ await fs.copyFile(targetPath, backupPath)
+ await fs.chmod(backupPath, 0o600)
+ // "r+" not "r": fsync on a read-only handle is EPERM on Windows, and the same
+ // flag the staged temp file uses above.
+ const backupFd = fsSync.openSync(backupPath, "r+")
+ try {
+ fsSync.fsyncSync(backupFd)
+ } finally {
+ fsSync.closeSync(backupFd)
+ }
+ } catch (backupError: unknown) {
+ // A partial backup must not outlive this attempt: it is not a complete copy
+ // of anything, and once the write fails nothing else removes it. The unlink is
+ // retried once (Windows reports EPERM for a file whose handle has not been
+ // released yet); if it still fails the path is carried on the thrown error
+ // instead of being dropped where no caller can act on it.
+ const orphanPath = backupPath
+ let backupCleanupError: unknown = null
+ for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 2; attempt++) {
+ try {
+ await fs.unlink(orphanPath)
+ backupCleanupError = null
+ break
+ } catch (cleanupError: unknown) {
+ if (getErrorCode(cleanupError) === "ENOENT") {
+ // Already gone: that is exactly the outcome the cleanup wanted, so stop
+ // rather than unlinking the same path a second time.
+ backupCleanupError = null
+ break
+ }
+ backupCleanupError = cleanupError
+ }
+ }
+ backupPath = null
+ if (backupCleanupError !== null) {
+ throw new OrphanedBackupError(orphanPath, targetPath, backupError, backupCleanupError)
+ }
+ throw backupError
+ }
+ releaseBackupOnSuccess = true
+ } catch (err: unknown) {
+ if (getErrorCode(err) !== "ENOENT") throw err
+ }
+ }
+
+ // -- Step 4: atomic commit temp -> target ---------------------
+ if (options?.failIfExist) {
+ // No-replace commit: link(2) fails EEXIST when the name already exists,
+ // where a rename would silently displace whatever a non-participating
+ // writer put there after the caller checked. The staged copy is removed
+ // once the name points at it.
+ try {
+ await fs.link(tempPath, targetPath)
+ } catch (error: unknown) {
+ const code = getErrorCode(error)
+ if (code === "EEXIST") {
+ throw new TargetExistsError(targetPath)
+ }
+ // FAT32/exFAT volumes and some SMB/network mounts have no hard links, where
+ // link(2) fails EPERM/ENOTSUP/ENOSYS. The fallback this replaces published by
+ // an exclusive copy directly at the final name, but a copy is not atomic:
+ // readers can observe a partial file, and a crash or an EIO mid-copy leaves
+ // damaged bytes under the final name with the 'already exists' verdict on
+ // retry. No atomic no-replace primitive exists on those volumes, so the
+ // guarded create fails closed - nothing is published and the caller learns
+ // the volume cannot honor the contract.
+ if (code !== "EPERM" && code !== "ENOTSUP" && code !== "ENOSYS") {
+ throw error
+ }
+ throw new UnsupportedFilesystemError(targetPath, error)
+ }
+ } else {
+ await fs.rename(tempPath, targetPath)
+ }
+
+ if (options?.failIfExist) {
+ // The target name is published at this point; the staged name is only a second
+ // link to the same inode (or a copy of it). Removal is best-effort: on Windows
+ // an antivirus handle can make unlink fail with EBUSY/EPERM after the content
+ // is already visible, and the write must not be reported as failed for content
+ // the caller can now read back.
+ await fs.unlink(tempPath).catch(() => undefined)
+ }
+
+ // Marked once the commit has consumed the staging name: on the rename path the
+ // rename consumed it, on the link path the removal just did. Every step after
+ // this one is a post-commit step, and none of them may remove the staging path
+ // or the published content.
+ stagingCommitted = true
+ // -- Step 4b (POSIX): fsync the parent directory so the directory entry
+ // changed by the commit rename is durable, not just the file content.
+ if (platform !== "win32") {
+ try {
+ const dirFd = fsSync.openSync(dirPath, "r")
+ try {
+ fsSync.fsyncSync(dirFd)
+ } finally {
+ fsSync.closeSync(dirFd)
+ }
+ } catch (error: unknown) {
+ // The content rename committed, but the directory entry that
+ // points at it is not known to be durable. Reporting success
+ // here would let a caller believe the write survives a crash,
+ // so the failure is surfaced as its own error: the caller can
+ // still find the content at the target, it just cannot rely on
+ // the directory entry having reached the disk.
+ throw new PostCommitDurabilityError(targetPath, error)
+ }
+ }
+
+ // -- Step 5 (win32): restore DACL AFTER commit rename ---------
+ // daclDumpPath is non-null only when the win32 step-2 block saved a
+ // successful dump, so this gate is closed on every other platform
+ // and on every failed save.
+ if (daclDumpPath !== null) {
+ const restoredDir = path.dirname(targetPath)
+ await _restoreDaclWindows(restoredDir, daclDumpPath, options?.execFileRunner)
+ }
+
+ // -- Step 6 (backup:true): delete backup on success -----------
+ if (releaseBackupOnSuccess && backupPath) {
+ const orphanedBackupPath = backupPath
+ let backupCleanupError: unknown = null
+ // A transient handle (antivirus scanner, indexer) can block the first unlink
+ // on Windows; one retry usually clears it.
+ for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 2; attempt++) {
+ try {
+ await fs.unlink(orphanedBackupPath)
+ backupCleanupError = null
+ break
+ } catch (cleanupError: unknown) {
+ if (getErrorCode(cleanupError) === "ENOENT") {
+ backupCleanupError = null
+ break
+ }
+ backupCleanupError = cleanupError
+ }
+ }
+ backupPath = null
+ if (backupCleanupError !== null) {
+ // The content is published: reporting success here would abandon a stale
+ // copy of the previous content, so the failure travels as its own error.
+ throw new OrphanedPublishedBackupError(targetPath, orphanedBackupPath, backupCleanupError)
+ }
+ }
+ } finally {
+ // Unlink DACL dump regardless of success/failure in this span.
+ if (daclDumpPath !== null) {
+ await fs.unlink(daclDumpPath).catch(() => {})
+ }
+ }
+
+ // tempPath is now the committed file; no cleanup needed.
+
+ // Best-effort: remove the now-empty staging directory. Self-staged
+ // writes only, and only this write's own directory: a per-write directory
+ // cannot be the one another concurrent write is still using. A failure must
+ // never un-commit a published file, so the removal swallows all errors.
+ if (stagingDir) {
+ await fs.rmdir(stagingDir).catch(() => {})
+ }
+ } catch (originalError: unknown) {
+ // The backup is a copy, never a restore source: whether the failure happened before
+ // or after the commit rename, the copy is removed below so no stale duplicate of the
+ // previous content survives next to the target.
+ if (backupPath && releaseBackupOnSuccess) {
+ // Nothing to restore: the backup is a copy, so the target still holds whatever
+ // the commit left there - before the commit that is the pre-write content, and
+ // after it the published content. Either way the copy has served its purpose
+ // and must not be left beside the target where no caller can find it.
+ await fs.unlink(backupPath).catch(() => {})
+ backupPath = null
+ }
+ if (!stagingCommitted) {
+ try {
+ await fs.unlink(tempPath).catch(() => {})
+ } catch {
+ // cleanup failure is non-fatal
+ }
+ }
+
+ // A failed self-staged write must not leave its staging directory behind.
+ // Only the directory this write created, and only after its temp file is
+ // gone, so the directory is empty and the removal stays best-effort.
+ if (stagingDir) {
+ await fs.rmdir(stagingDir).catch(() => {})
+ }
+
+ if (daclDumpPath !== null) {
+ await fs.unlink(daclDumpPath).catch(() => {})
+ }
+
+ throw originalError
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/utils/__tests__/fileLock.canonicalKey.spec.ts b/src/utils/__tests__/fileLock.canonicalKey.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1dab157057
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/utils/__tests__/fileLock.canonicalKey.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+// npx vitest run utils/__tests__/fileLock.canonicalKey.spec.ts
+
+import path from "path"
+import type { BigIntStats } from "fs"
+import * as fs from "fs/promises"
+import * as lockfile from "proper-lockfile"
+import { withFileLock } from "../fileLock"
+import { resolveLockKey } from "../../services/file-safety/safeWriteText"
+
+vi.mock("proper-lockfile", () => ({
+ lock: vi.fn(async () => async () => {}),
+ unlock: vi.fn(async () => {}),
+}))
+
+vi.mock("fs/promises", async () => {
+ const actual = await vi.importActual("fs/promises")
+ return { ...actual, realpath: vi.fn(), lstat: vi.fn(), readlink: vi.fn() }
+})
+
+const mockedRealpath = vi.mocked(fs.realpath)
+const mockedLstat = vi.mocked(fs.lstat)
+const mockedReadlink = vi.mocked(fs.readlink)
+const mockedLock = vi.mocked(lockfile.lock)
+
+const dir = path.resolve(path.join(path.sep + "work", "history"))
+const referent = path.join(dir, "item.json")
+const alias = path.join(dir, "alias.json")
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+ mockedRealpath.mockReset()
+ mockedLstat.mockReset()
+ mockedReadlink.mockReset()
+ mockedLock.mockReset()
+ // alias.json is a symlink to item.json; everything else resolves to itself.
+ mockedRealpath.mockImplementation(async (target) => (target === alias ? referent : String(target)))
+ mockedLstat.mockImplementation(async () => ({ isSymbolicLink: () => false }) as unknown as BigIntStats)
+ mockedReadlink.mockRejectedValue(Object.assign(new Error("not a link"), { code: "EINVAL" }))
+})
+
+describe("withFileLock lock-key canonicalization", () => {
+ it("locks the canonical referent that safeWriteJson locks, not the raw alias", async () => {
+ // The compound-atomicity contract of task-history deletion is that an
+ // unlink under this helper and a safeWriteJson read-modify-write on the
+ // same file serialize. That holds only while both compute ONE key:
+ // safeWriteJson locks resolveLockKey(target), so withFileLock must too.
+ // Locking the raw alias here would watch a different lock file and let
+ // the deletion interleave with the merge write.
+ await withFileLock(alias, async () => undefined)
+
+ expect(mockedLock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+ expect(mockedLock.mock.calls[0][0]).toBe(referent)
+ // The shared-key contract stated directly: whatever safeWriteJson would
+ // lock for the same path is exactly what this helper locked.
+ expect(mockedLock.mock.calls[0][0]).toBe(await resolveLockKey(alias))
+ })
+
+ it("hands the operation the caller's own path so its unlink keeps alias semantics", async () => {
+ // unlink(alias) removes the link; unlink(referent) removes the target
+ // file. Deletion must act on the path the caller named, even though the
+ // lock is taken on the canonical key.
+ const seen: string[] = []
+ await withFileLock(alias, async (absoluteFilePath) => {
+ seen.push(absoluteFilePath)
+ })
+ expect(seen).toEqual([alias])
+ })
+})
diff --git a/src/utils/__tests__/fileLock.spec.ts b/src/utils/__tests__/fileLock.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..851094a5f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/utils/__tests__/fileLock.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
+// npx vitest run utils/__tests__/fileLock.spec.ts
+
+import * as path from "path"
+
+import * as fsPromises from "fs/promises"
+
+import * as lockfile from "proper-lockfile"
+
+import { acquireFileLock, withFileLock } from "../fileLock"
+
+vi.mock("fs/promises", () => ({
+ realpath: vi.fn(async (target: unknown) => {
+ const asString = String(target)
+ // A path that does not exist yet reports ENOENT, as the real fs does.
+ if (asString.includes("missing")) {
+ throw Object.assign(new Error("ENOENT"), { code: "ENOENT" })
+ }
+ return asString.replace("aliasDir", "realDir")
+ }),
+ // A non-link rejects readlink, exactly like the real fs; the link tests
+ // override this per path.
+ readlink: vi.fn(async () => {
+ throw Object.assign(new Error("EINVAL"), { code: "EINVAL" })
+ }),
+}))
+
+vi.mock("proper-lockfile", () => ({
+ lock: vi.fn(async () => async () => {}),
+}))
+
+/**
+ * proper-lockfile derives its lock file from the path it is handed, and this module
+ * turns off the library's own realpath step because the file may not exist yet. Without
+ * a canonical lock key, a writer that reaches a file through a symlinked directory and a
+ * deleter that reaches the same file lexically take DIFFERENT locks and silently lose
+ * updates against each other - the shape a task file under a symlinked task directory
+ * has against a task-history delete.
+ */
+const STORE = path.resolve("/tmp/store")
+
+describe("fileLock - canonical lock keys", () => {
+ beforeEach(() => {
+ vi.mocked(lockfile.lock).mockClear()
+ })
+
+ test("locks the referent when the path runs through a symlinked directory", async () => {
+ const releaseLock = await acquireFileLock(path.join(STORE, "aliasDir", "task.json"))
+
+ expect(lockfile.lock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+ path.join(STORE, "realDir", "task.json"),
+ expect.objectContaining({ realpath: false }),
+ )
+
+ await releaseLock()
+ })
+
+ test("locks the referent but hands the operation the caller's own path", async () => {
+ // The mutex key is canonical; the path the caller works on is left alone. On Windows
+ // realpath can answer with the 8.3 short form, and rewriting the path a caller
+ // unlinks or compares would change behavior for every caller for no mutex gain.
+ const callerPath = path.join(STORE, "aliasDir", "task.json")
+ const seen: string[] = []
+ await withFileLock(callerPath, async (absoluteFilePath) => {
+ seen.push(absoluteFilePath)
+ })
+
+ expect(seen).toEqual([callerPath])
+ expect(lockfile.lock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+ path.join(STORE, "realDir", "task.json"),
+ expect.objectContaining({ realpath: false }),
+ )
+ })
+
+ test("falls back to the lexical path when realpath fails with EACCES", async () => {
+ // A permission failure says nothing about the path's identity; failing closed to the
+ // lexical path keeps the lock key stable instead of inventing a canonical form.
+ vi.mocked(fsPromises.realpath).mockRejectedValueOnce(
+ Object.assign(new Error("EACCES: permission denied"), { code: "EACCES" }),
+ )
+ const callerPath = path.join(STORE, "aliasDir", "task.json")
+
+ await withFileLock(callerPath, async (absoluteFilePath) => {
+ expect(absoluteFilePath).toBe(callerPath)
+ })
+
+ expect(lockfile.lock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(callerPath, expect.objectContaining({ realpath: false }))
+ })
+
+ test("falls back to the lexical path when realpath fails without an error code", async () => {
+ vi.mocked(fsPromises.realpath).mockRejectedValueOnce(new Error("unknown failure"))
+ const callerPath = path.join(STORE, "aliasDir", "task.json")
+
+ await withFileLock(callerPath, async (absoluteFilePath) => {
+ expect(absoluteFilePath).toBe(callerPath)
+ })
+
+ expect(lockfile.lock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(callerPath, expect.objectContaining({ realpath: false }))
+ })
+
+ test("canonicalizes the nearest existing ancestor when the file does not exist yet", async () => {
+ // The file and its parent are absent, so realpath reports ENOENT for them; the deepest
+ // existing ancestor is resolved and the missing components are re-appended.
+ const seen: string[] = []
+ await withFileLock(path.join(STORE, "aliasDir", "missing", "new.json"), async (absoluteFilePath) => {
+ seen.push(absoluteFilePath)
+ })
+
+ expect(seen).toEqual([path.join(STORE, "aliasDir", "missing", "new.json")])
+ expect(lockfile.lock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+ path.join(STORE, "realDir", "missing", "new.json"),
+ expect.objectContaining({ realpath: false }),
+ )
+ })
+})
+
+test("locks the referent of a file symlink whose target is temporarily absent", async () => {
+ // A backup-mode commit renames the referent away and back. During that window the
+ // link is dangling, realpath fails, and a naive fallback re-appends the LINK's
+ // basename onto the canonical parent - a different key from the one safeWriteJson
+ // holds through resolveLockKey, so the two writers stop excluding each other.
+ const linkPath = path.join(STORE, "link.json")
+ const referent = path.join(STORE, "referent.json")
+ vi.mocked(fsPromises.readlink).mockImplementation(async (p: unknown) => {
+ if (String(p) === linkPath) return referent
+ throw Object.assign(new Error("EINVAL"), { code: "EINVAL" })
+ })
+
+ const releaseLock = await acquireFileLock(linkPath)
+
+ expect(lockfile.lock).toHaveBeenCalledWith(referent, expect.objectContaining({ realpath: false }))
+
+ await releaseLock()
+})
+test("terminates on a three-link cycle instead of recursing forever", async () => {
+ // a -> b -> c -> a: the cycle length does not divide the per-frame walk bound,
+ // so a recursion that restarts its hop budget on every frame never terminates -
+ // each frame walks 8 hops, lands on a different cycle member, and recurses.
+ // resolveLockKey hands a cycle member to withFileLock, so an unbounded
+ // canonicalLockPath hangs every guarded writer on the lock path, not just the
+ // walker. The readlink mock yields to a timer so a regression fails on the
+ // test timeout instead of starving the event loop.
+ // Top-level test: clear the shared doubles so the counts below are this test's own.
+ vi.mocked(lockfile.lock).mockClear()
+ vi.mocked(fsPromises.readlink).mockClear()
+ vi.mocked(fsPromises.realpath).mockClear()
+
+ const a = path.join(STORE, "cyc", "a.json")
+ const b = path.join(STORE, "cyc", "b.json")
+ const c = path.join(STORE, "cyc", "c.json")
+ const cycle: Record = { [a]: b, [b]: c, [c]: a }
+ vi.mocked(fsPromises.readlink).mockImplementation(async (target: unknown) => {
+ await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 0))
+ const referent = cycle[String(target)]
+ if (referent === undefined) throw Object.assign(new Error("EINVAL"), { code: "EINVAL" })
+ return referent
+ })
+ vi.mocked(fsPromises.realpath).mockImplementation(async () => {
+ throw Object.assign(new Error("ENOENT"), { code: "ENOENT" })
+ })
+
+ const releaseLock = await acquireFileLock(a)
+
+ // Terminated with exactly one lock acquisition on a cycle member, and the
+ // total hop budget held across all frames.
+ expect(lockfile.lock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+ expect(vi.mocked(fsPromises.readlink).mock.calls.length).toBeLessThanOrEqual(64)
+
+ await releaseLock()
+})
diff --git a/src/utils/fileLock.ts b/src/utils/fileLock.ts
index 49807ea154..2ab8179b00 100644
--- a/src/utils/fileLock.ts
+++ b/src/utils/fileLock.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
import * as path from "path"
import { tracePersistenceEvent } from "../core/task-persistence/persistenceTrace"
import * as lockfile from "proper-lockfile"
+import * as fs from "fs/promises"
/**
* Shared staleness window for per-file advisory locks. This module owns the
@@ -19,6 +20,78 @@ export interface FileLockOptions {
immediate?: boolean
}
+/**
+ * Canonical lock key for a path.
+ *
+ * proper-lockfile derives its lock file from the path it is handed, and this module
+ * turns off the library's own realpath step because the file may not exist yet. Two
+ * callers that reach the same file by different routes - one lexical, one through a
+ * symlinked directory - would then take DIFFERENT locks and silently lose updates
+ * against each other, which is exactly how a task file written through a symlinked
+ * task directory ends up unlocked against a task-history delete.
+ *
+ * The file itself may be absent (a create), so the nearest EXISTING ancestor is
+ * canonicalized and the missing components are re-appended. If nothing can be
+ * canonicalized the lexical absolute path is kept: lock keys stay stable and the
+ * write's own resolution still decides where content lands.
+ */
+/**
+ * Total link hops canonicalLockPath may follow across ALL its frames. The
+ * per-frame walk bound alone does not terminate: a cycle whose length does not
+ * divide that bound (a 3-link cycle a -> b -> c -> a against a bound of 8)
+ * makes every frame land on a different cycle member, so the recursion below
+ * restarts its budget forever. This runs on the lock path - withFileLock and every
+ * direct acquireFileLock caller hands it a cycle member - so an unbounded walk hangs
+ * guardedWrite and safeWriteJson, not just the walker.
+ */
+const MAX_TOTAL_LINK_HOPS = 64
+
+async function canonicalLockPath(filePath: string, remainingLinkHops = MAX_TOTAL_LINK_HOPS): Promise {
+ const absoluteFilePath = path.resolve(filePath)
+
+ // A file symlink has to produce the same key the writer's lock uses
+ // (resolveLockKey in safeWriteText). Walking readlink even when the referent is
+ // temporarily absent - which is exactly the window a backup-mode commit creates -
+ // keeps a raw withFileLock caller on the link path excluding the peer writing
+ // through the referent; re-appending the link's basename onto the canonical
+ // parent would take a different lock and the two operations would stop excluding
+ // each other. The walk is bounded so a two-link cycle terminates.
+ let linkCursor = absoluteFilePath
+ const frameBudget = Math.min(8, remainingLinkHops)
+ for (let depth = 0; depth < frameBudget; depth++) {
+ const referent = await fs.readlink(linkCursor).catch(() => undefined)
+ if (referent === undefined) {
+ break
+ }
+ linkCursor = path.resolve(path.dirname(linkCursor), referent)
+ }
+ if (linkCursor !== absoluteFilePath) {
+ // Recurse with the REMAINING hop budget, not a fresh one: once the total
+ // is spent the next frame walks zero hops and canonicalizes the ancestors
+ // of the cycle member it stopped on, so a cycle terminates on a stable key
+ // instead of recursing forever.
+ return await canonicalLockPath(linkCursor, Math.max(0, remainingLinkHops - frameBudget))
+ }
+ const missing: string[] = []
+ let cursor = absoluteFilePath
+ for (;;) {
+ try {
+ const realPath = await fs.realpath(cursor)
+ return missing.length > 0 ? path.join(realPath, ...missing.reverse()) : realPath
+ } catch (error) {
+ const code =
+ typeof error === "object" && error !== null && "code" in error
+ ? (error as { code?: string }).code
+ : undefined
+ if (code !== "ENOENT" && code !== "ENOTDIR") return absoluteFilePath
+ const parent = path.dirname(cursor)
+ if (parent === cursor) return absoluteFilePath
+ missing.push(path.basename(cursor))
+ cursor = parent
+ }
+ }
+}
+
/**
* Acquire the advisory lock for one file path using the exact protocol
* `safeWriteJson` uses, so operations that hold this lock serialize with
@@ -27,7 +100,7 @@ export interface FileLockOptions {
* while holding it.
*/
export async function acquireFileLock(filePath: string, options?: FileLockOptions): Promise<() => Promise> {
- const absoluteFilePath = path.resolve(filePath)
+ const absoluteFilePath = await canonicalLockPath(filePath)
if (options?.waitForStaleLock) tracePersistenceEvent("json-lock-wait", { filePath: absoluteFilePath })
try {
return await lockfile.lock(absoluteFilePath, {
@@ -72,19 +145,32 @@ export async function withFileLock(
operation: (absoluteFilePath: string) => Promise,
options?: FileLockOptions,
): Promise {
- const absoluteFilePath = path.resolve(filePath)
- const releaseLock = await acquireFileLock(absoluteFilePath, options)
+ // The operation receives the caller's own resolved path. On Windows realpath can answer
+ // with the 8.3 short form (C:\Users\RUNNER~1\... for a temp dir under
+ // C:\Users\runneradmin\...), and the operation's own file calls (e.g. the task-history
+ // unlink) must keep the caller's alias semantics: unlinking the referent instead of the
+ // alias would delete a different directory entry.
+ const operationPath = path.resolve(filePath)
+ // The LOCK key is canonical - the same one safeWriteJson computes - so a caller that
+ // reaches the file through a symlinked directory and one that reaches it lexically
+ // contend for ONE lock file. Locking the raw path here would let a deletion through this
+ // helper run concurrently with a safeWriteJson read-modify-write on the referent, breaking
+ // the compound atomicity the deletion contract promises. The canonicalization runs inside
+ // acquireFileLock, so the walk happens once and direct acquireFileLock callers (safeWriteJson
+ // passes an already-canonical key, jsonFileRecovery and the specs pass raw paths) are all
+ // covered by the same rule.
+ const releaseLock = await acquireFileLock(operationPath, options)
let result: T
try {
- result = await operation(absoluteFilePath)
+ result = await operation(operationPath)
} catch (operationError) {
// The operation error is the primary failure. Release without
// reporting a secondary release error over it.
try {
await releaseLock()
} catch (releaseError) {
- console.error(`Failed to release lock for ${absoluteFilePath}:`, releaseError)
+ console.error(`Failed to release lock for ${operationPath}:`, releaseError)
}
throw operationError
}
@@ -94,7 +180,7 @@ export async function withFileLock(
} catch (releaseError) {
// The operation already succeeded, so a release failure is only
// logged, matching how `safeWriteJson` handles release failures.
- console.error(`Failed to release lock for ${absoluteFilePath}:`, releaseError)
+ console.error(`Failed to release lock for ${operationPath}:`, releaseError)
}
return result
}