Thread (41 messages) 41 messages, 4 authors, 2024-10-27

Re: [PATCH 2/3] compat/mingw: allow deletion of most opened files

From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <hidden>
Date: 2024-10-23 16:19:55

On Wed, Oct 23, 2024, at 17:05, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
On Windows, we emulate open(3p) via `mingw_open()`. This function
implements handling of some platform- specific quirks that are required
s/platform- specific/platform-specific/

Linewrapping artifact?
to make it behave as closely as possible like open(3p) would, but for
most cases we just call the Windows-specific `_wopen()` function.

This function has a major downside though: it does not allow us to
specify the sharing mode. While there is `_wsopen()` that allows us to
pass sharing flags, those sharing flags are not the same `FILE_SHARE_*`
flags as `CreateFileW()` accepts. Instead, `_wsopen()` only allows
concurrent read- and write-access, but does not allow for concurrent
deletions. Unfortunately though, we have to allow concurrent deletions
if we want to have POSIX-style atomic renames on top of an existing file
that has open file handles.

Implement a new function that emulates open(3p) for existing files via
`CreateFileW()` such that we can set the required sharing flags.

While we have the same issue when calling open(3p) with `O_CREAT`,
s/O_CREAT/O_CREATE/ ?
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implementing that mode would be more complex due to the required
permission handling. Furthermore, atomic updates via renames typically
write to exclusive lockfile and then perform the rename, and thus we
don't have to handle the case where the locked path has been created
with `O_CREATE`. So while it would be nice to have proper POSIX
semantics in all paths, we instead aim for a minimum viable fix here.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <redacted>
---
 compat/mingw.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+)
diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index e326c6fcd2d..ce95f3a5968 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -532,6 +532,59 @@ static int mingw_open_append(wchar_t const
*wfilename, int oflags, ...)
 	return fd;
 }

+/*
+ * Ideally, we'd use `_wopen()` to implement this functionality so that we
+ * don't have to reimplement it, but unfortunately we do not have tight control
+ * over the share mode there. And while `_wsopen()` and friends exist that give
+ * us _some_ control over the share mode, this family of functions doesn't give
+ * us the ability to enable FILE_SHARE_DELETE, either. But this is a strict
+ * requirement for us though so that we can unlink or rename over files that
+ * are held open by another process.
+ *
+ * We are thus forced to implement our own emulation of `open()`. To make our
+ * life simpler we only implement basic support for this, namely opening
+ * existing files for reading and/or writing. This means that newly created
+ * files won't have their sharing mode set up correctly, but for now I couldn't
+ * find any case where this matters. We may have to revisit that in the future
+ * though based on our needs.
+ */
This is above my technical level but the comment reads nicely.
+static int mingw_open_existing(const wchar_t *filename, int oflags, ...)
+{
+	SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES security_attributes = {
+	    .nLength = sizeof(security_attributes),
+	    .bInheritHandle = !(oflags & O_NOINHERIT),
`clang-format` thinks that these two lines should be indented with tabs
instead (so two tabs in total).

(Ubuntu clang-format version 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1)
+	};
+	HANDLE handle;
+	int access;
+	int fd;
+
+	/* We only support basic flags. */
+	if (oflags & ~(O_ACCMODE | O_NOINHERIT))
+		return errno = ENOSYS, -1;
This use of the comma operator is maybe an idiom to save space and avoid
a brace around the `if`?  This pattern is already in use in
`mingw_open_append`.  I see in `mingw.h` that it uses:
static inline int symlink(const char *oldpath UNUSED, const char *newpath UNUSED)
{ errno = ENOSYS; return -1; }
+	if (oflags & O_RDWR)
+		access = GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE;
+	else if (oflags & O_WRONLY)
+		access = GENERIC_WRITE;
+	else
+		access = GENERIC_READ;
+
+	handle = CreateFileW(filename, access,
+			     FILE_SHARE_WRITE | FILE_SHARE_READ | FILE_SHARE_DELETE,
+			     &security_attributes, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL);
`clang-format` says that these two lines are too long.
+	if (handle == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
+		DWORD err = GetLastError();
+		if (err == ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER)
+			err = ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND;
+		errno = err_win_to_posix(err);
+		return -1;
Here you don’t use the comma operator, presumably because it wouldn’t
turn the `if` into a one-statement block.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+	}
+
+	fd = _open_osfhandle((intptr_t)handle, oflags | O_BINARY);
+	if (fd < 0)
+		CloseHandle(handle);
+	return fd;
+}
+
 /*
  * Does the pathname map to the local named pipe filesystem?
  * That is, does it have a "//./pipe/" prefix?
@@ -567,6 +620,8 @@ int mingw_open (const char *filename, int oflags, ...)

 	if ((oflags & O_APPEND) && !is_local_named_pipe_path(filename))
 		open_fn = mingw_open_append;
+	else if (!(oflags & ~(O_ACCMODE | O_NOINHERIT)))
+		open_fn = mingw_open_existing;
 	else
 		open_fn = _wopen;

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2.47.0.118.gfd3785337b.dirty
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