fix(tools): use atomic temp-and-replace writes for write_file and edit_file - #941
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ChangesAtomic file writing
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Tool
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Tool->>maybeFormatWrittenFile: format staged content
maybeFormatWrittenFile-->>Tool: formatted or fallback content
Tool->>committedWrite: publish formatted content
committedWrite->>WriteFileAtomic: perform atomic write
WriteFileAtomic->>Filesystem: validate metadata and replace destination
Filesystem-->>WriteFileAtomic: replacement result
committedWrite-->>Tool: result and cleanup warning
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Concurrent file changes can still be overwritten after the tools report a successful edit or write, and replacing privileged Unix files can drop their special metadata. These behaviors should be corrected before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@internal/fsutil/rename_test.go`:
- Around line 35-64: Add a failure-path case to TestWriteFileAtomic that forces
the destination replacement to fail, then verify the original destination
contents remain unchanged and the temporary file created by WriteFileAtomic is
removed. Use the existing temp-directory setup and inspect the relevant
WriteFileAtomic temporary-file naming behavior rather than changing production
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In `@internal/fsutil/rename.go`:
- Around line 17-21: Update the rename flow around os.CreateTemp and
ReplaceWithRetry to bind containment at open and replacement time using rooted
or handle-relative, traversal-resistant filesystem operations. Do not rely on
filepath.Dir, pre-open path checks, or path-string resolution as the containment
guarantee, and preserve the existing temporary-file and replacement behavior.
- Around line 34-48: Update the replacement flow around ReplaceWithRetry and
tmpFile.Chmod so Unix replacements retain the existing destination’s permission
bits, while perm is applied only when the destination is new. Add coverage for
existing 0o600 and executable destinations, preserving the current
temporary-file write, sync, close, and replacement behavior.
In `@internal/tools/edit_file.go`:
- Line 159: Handle fsutil.CommittedReplacementCleanupError in both
internal/tools/edit_file.go lines 159-159 and internal/tools/write_file.go lines
112-112: re-baseline FileTracker after the replacement commits, and report the
cleanup failure without treating the edit or write as failed. Preserve the
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Right problem to fix, and committedWrite folding the committed-cleanup case into a warning rather than an error status is a nice touch. Two things to sort out first.
Windows CI is red on this branch. TestWriteFileAtomicPreservesExistingMode asserts exact permission bits, and Windows only models the read-only bit, so a file chmodded to 0600 reads back as 0666. I get the identical failure locally:
--- FAIL: TestWriteFileAtomicPreservesExistingMode (0.02s)
rename_test.go:85: mode = 0666, want 0600
FAIL github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/fsutil
The production code is fine; it is the assertion that is not portable. Either gate the exact-bits check on non-Windows, or assert the thing Windows actually preserves.
Rename replaces the object, and os.WriteFile did not. The old call wrote through the existing name into the same inode. Temp-and-rename puts a new file at that name. Two consequences the PR does not decide on:
A symlink at the final component is destroyed. The write lands as a regular file where the link was, and the file the link pointed at keeps its old contents. recheckWorkspaceWriteTarget only resolves symlinks on the workspace root, not the target, so an in-workspace symlink reaches this code today.
Hard links break the same way. That one I could measure here, and it is the clearest demonstration of the mechanism, so both behaviours in one run:
os.WriteFile (previous behaviour): after writing a.txt, b.txt reads "updated"
WriteFileAtomic (this PR): after writing a.txt, b.txt reads "original"
>>> the hard link was BROKEN
I could not do the symlink half on this machine, no symlink privilege, but it is the same rename and the same inode.
I am not saying the old behaviour was right. Following a final-component symlink meant a link inside the workspace pointing outside it got written through, and this change closes that. That is arguably the better default. But it should be a decision with a test on it rather than a side effect, because right now nothing in the suite covers either half, which is why this is invisible in CI.
Ownership, ACLs and xattrs go the same way: only the permission bits are carried across, so on Windows the replacement picks up default inherited ACLs instead of whatever explicit ACEs the original carried. Same root cause, worth one line in the doc comment even if you decide not to handle it.
Three smaller notes.
TestRenameWithRetryNonRetryableError is deleted in this diff and nothing replaces it. It was the only coverage that a non-retryable error stops after exactly one attempt. Whatever else changes, that should go back.
There is no parent-directory fsync after the rename, so the new directory entry is not durable until the filesystem gets around to it. That does not matter for what the PR description is actually about, a process cancelled or killed mid-write, since the rename is atomic to any other process. It only matters for power loss. Fine to leave out, worth saying so in the comment so the next reader does not think it was missed.
os.MkdirAll inside WriteFileAtomic is redundant for both callers: write_file.go:104 already does it, and edit_file needs the file to exist. Harmless here, but a general fsutil helper that silently creates directories is a surprise for whoever calls it next.
Get CI green and tell me which way you want the symlink case to go, and I will re-review.
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In `@internal/fsutil/rename_test.go`:
- Around line 68-85: Update the mode assertions in the WriteFileAtomic test to
capture the effective permissions from os.Stat after os.Chmod, then compare the
replacement file’s mode against that captured value rather than the original
want mode. Preserve testing both permission cases and the existing
WriteFileAtomic behavior.
In `@internal/fsutil/rename.go`:
- Line 58: Update the replacement flow around ReplaceWithRetry to synchronize
filepath.Dir(filename) after a successful replacement. Treat unsupported
directory-sync errors as best effort, and do not return a failure when the
replacement has already committed; preserve existing errors from the replacement
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In `@internal/tools/atomic_write.go`:
- Around line 18-20: Update the committed cleanup-error handling in
committedWrite to return the fixed message “replacement committed, but backup
cleanup failed” without exposing BackupPath or Cause, and add a test verifying
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21-26: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftPreserve umask semantics for new destinations.
When the destination is absent,
os.CreateTempcreates the temporary file with0o600, buttmpFile.Chmod(mode)appliespermdirectly. With umask0o077andperm=0o644, the replacement is0o644, unlikeos.WriteFile, which creates it as0o600. Create the temporary file withos.OpenFileusingO_CREATE|O_EXCLandperm, and keep explicit mode copying for existing regular destinations. Add a Unix regression test for umask0o077.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@internal/fsutil/rename.go`:
- Around line 21-26: Update the temporary-file creation in the rename flow
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CI had never actually run on your branches. All of them were sitting at This one comes back red on Windows, and it is a build failure rather than a test failure:
It needs a build tag. I moved the function into So that one tag is the entire Windows blocker here. With it in place the rest of the package is green on Windows, including My earlier review still stands on its own points, in particular the rename-replaces-the-object question for a symlink or hard link at the final component. This is just the CI half. Two of your others came back red as well and I am looking at those now: #952 and #954, both Windows only. |
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In `@internal/fsutil/rename.go`:
- Around line 26-32: Update the destination validation around os.Lstat and the
replacement flow to fail closed for symbolic links and regular files with
multiple hard links, preventing replacement from detaching aliases or symlink
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Reject link destinations or implement their prior semantics.
Line 26 accepts a symbolic link as a non-regular destination. Line 66 then replaces that link with the temporary file. A write_file or edit_file operation can succeed, leave the symlink referent unchanged, and remove the symlink.
A hard-linked regular file passes the current regular-file check. Replacement detaches only filename, so other hard-link aliases retain stale content.
Define a fail-closed policy before replacement. Reject symbolic links and multiply-linked regular files, or implement explicit supported semantics for them. Add regression tests for the selected failure behavior.
As per coding guidelines, “Every behavior or security-boundary change needs a regression test, including the failure path.”
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In `@internal/fsutil/rename.go` around lines 26 - 32, Update the destination
validation around os.Lstat and the replacement flow to fail closed for symbolic
links and regular files with multiple hard links, preventing replacement from
detaching aliases or symlink paths; preserve support for ordinary single-link
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Approving on 5a393fc6. Sorry this sat on a stale change request.
The Windows assertion is portable now, TestRenameWithRetryNonRetryableError is back, and you went further than I asked on the directory sync rather than just documenting its absence. The umask handling you found on your own is a good catch; creating the temp file with perm rather than 0600-then-chmod is the right shape, and gating that test behind !windows is correct since Windows has no umask to honour.
Two things left. Neither blocks, and one is not really yours.
The symlink case ended up platform-split, and nothing says so. You did not touch replace_*.go, and the divergence predates you: replace_windows.go:87 refuses a symlink destination outright, from #757, while replace_other.go is a plain os.Rename that replaces it. What changed here is that WriteFileAtomic now routes into that, so its callers went from uniform behaviour (os.WriteFile followed the link on every platform) to an error on Windows and a silently destroyed link on Linux and macOS. Same input, same caller, two outcomes.
I am not asking you to unify them; that is #757's territory. But the doc comment on WriteFileAtomic should say which one a caller gets, because right now it describes mode and umask and is silent on the case that actually differs by platform.
Hard links break, and that is uniform and undocumented. Measured on this head:
after WriteFileAtomic(a): b reads "original"
>>> the hard link was BROKEN (a and b are now separate files)
Before this change both names shared an inode and both saw the update. That is an inherent consequence of temp-and-rename and I am not asking you to preserve links, but it is a real behaviour change with no test and no comment. One line in the doc comment, next to the symlink line, covers both.
The rest of my smaller notes are fine as they stand. os.MkdirAll inside the helper is still redundant for both current callers, but it is harmless and I would rather not churn the diff for it.
Worth knowing: this PR had never actually run CI. Its checks were sitting at action_required behind the fork gate, so the single green check was CodeRabbit and nothing else. I have released it. internal/fsutil passes here and it cross-compiles clean for linux, darwin and windows, but please glance at the full run now that it is real.
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Re-approving on b60c60a1. The doc lines are exactly right, and naming both halves separately is better than the one line I asked for: a reader now learns that Unix replaces the symlink, Windows refuses it, and hard links break by design, without having to find replace_windows.go to discover the split.
Note your push dismissed the previous approval, which is branch protection rather than anything you did wrong, and it re-armed the fork gate too. Your checks were sitting at action_required again with only CodeRabbit green. I have released them; that is the second time on this PR, so worth watching after any future push.
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
Merge readiness
- [P1] Rebase onto current
mainbefore merge
internal/fsutil/rename.go:24
This head is based onad34dc8, while livemainis1b5db17(ten commits newer) and has changed every affected tool/fsutil integration area, including the newer file-tracker behavior. Repository policy requires a fresh base. Please rebase, resolve against the current tool write paths, and have the resolved diff re-reviewed.
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[P1] Preserve the existing file's authorization boundary before replacing its inode
internal/fsutil/rename.go:30
This is a semantic change from an in-place write to replacing the destination inode. On Unix,WriteFileAtomicopens and writes a sibling temporary file before it applies the target's observed mode, thenos.Renames that inode over the destination. Rename permission is controlled by the parent directory, so awrite_file(overwrite: true)oredit_filecan now replace a mode-0444or ACL-restricted regular file whenever its parent directory is writable; the oldos.WriteFilehad to open that destination for writing and would have been rejected. The replacement also copies onlyModePerm, losing the previous owner/group, POSIX ACLs, xattrs, capabilities, and special mode bits; for example, a restrictive per-file ACL can be silently replaced by the directory's broader default ACL.Address the root cause rather than only adding another mode copy: make atomic overwrite preserve the old target's authorization and access-control contract, and fail closed when that cannot be done. In particular, establish that the process was allowed to write the existing target before publishing a replacement, and preserve the applicable ownership/ACL/xattr metadata (or reject metadata-bearing targets until a safe cross-platform preservation path exists). Keep the same-directory temp-and-publish property and the existing new-file umask behavior. Please add regression coverage for a non-writable existing target and for a restrictive metadata/access-control case on each platform where the relevant facility is available.
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[P2] Keep format-on-write inside the atomic publication boundary
internal/tools/write_file.go:118
committedWritepublishes atomically, but the next call hands the final path to an in-place formatter (gofmt -w,prettier --write,clang-format -i, and similar commands informat_on_write.go). WithZERO_FORMAT_ON_WRITE=1, a crash, cancellation, or timeout while that formatter truncates and rewrites the file reintroduces the exact partial-file failure #921 is intended to eliminate. This affects both changed entry points:write_fileatwrite_file.go:118andedit_fileatedit_file.go:165; the best-effort helper then returns the pre-format content if the formatter fails, even though the destination may already have been modified.Fix the lifecycle rather than treating formatter failure as harmless: format the new content in a sibling temporary file (using an extension/working directory that preserves formatter configuration), then make the atomic replacement the final publish step; alternatively, atomically republish the formatter output after it completes. Do not disable opt-in formatting, change its formatter selection, or record the FileTracker baseline before the final formatted bytes are published. Add interruption/failure-path coverage proving that a failed formatter leaves the previously published destination intact and that successful formatting is what becomes the tracked/displayed content.
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[P1] Preserve the existing target’s authorization and security metadata
internal/fsutil/rename.go:30
On Unix, the helper reads the target withLstat, creates a new sibling inode, copies onlyMode().Perm(), and then publishes it withos.Rename. Rename authorization comes from the parent directory, so a process that can modify that directory can replace a mode-0444or ACL-restricted file even though the prioros.WriteFilehad to open that file for writing. The new inode also drops ownership, POSIX ACLs, xattrs/capabilities, and special mode bits; a restrictive per-file ACL can therefore be replaced by the directory’s more permissive inherited defaults. This is a semantic access-boundary regression, not just an omitted mode bit. Address the root cause by making overwrite publication retain the target’s applicable authorization and security metadata, and fail closed when a platform cannot safely do so. Preserve the same-directory temporary-file publication and new-file umask behavior; do not fix this merely by copying another subset of mode bits. Add regression coverage for a non-writable target and for restrictive metadata/ACL behavior on the platforms that provide it. -
[P2] Keep the formatted bytes inside the atomic publication boundary
internal/tools/write_file.go:118
write_fileandedit_filepublish the requested bytes throughcommittedWrite, then callmaybeFormatWrittenFileon the destination path. That helper runs in-place commands such asgofmt -wandprettier --write; withZERO_FORMAT_ON_WRITE=1, a timeout, cancellation, or process crash during this second write can still leave the final path truncated or partial—the failure #921 is intended to eliminate. Its best-effort error path also returns the pre-format string without establishing that the formatter left the destination unchanged, so tracker/display state can diverge from disk. Fix the lifecycle rather than special-casing formatter errors: run the formatter on staged content and make the formatted bytes the single final atomic publication (or atomically republish formatter output). Keep formatting opt-in and preserve formatter selection/configuration. Cover successful formatting plus formatter failure/interruption for both tools, proving the old destination remains intact until final publication and that tracker/display state reflects the committed formatted bytes. -
[P2] Refuse non-regular overwrite targets before renaming over them
internal/fsutil/rename.go:35
TheLstatbranch records permission bits only for regular files, but it lets every other existing target continue toReplaceWithRetry. On Unix, the resulting rename replaces a FIFO, device, or socket directory entry with the temporary regular file, silently destroying an in-workspace endpoint; the prioros.WriteFilewould have opened that endpoint or failed rather than unlinking and replacing it. The root cause is treating “not a regular file” as if it were an absent destination. Classify the existing target before staging/publishing: preserve the supported regular-file path, retain the documented symlink behavior, and fail closed for unsupported special files. Add regression coverage that verifies a FIFO or other available special endpoint remains intact after refusal.
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74-74: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftPreserve the destination POSIX ACL before Unix replacement.
On Unix,
tmpNameis a new inode.WriteFileAtomiccopies only permission bits and owner data beforeos.Renamepublishes that inode.os.Renamedoes not preserve or merge the replaced file's ACL, so named-user or named-group rules can be lost and access can change. Copy the destination ACL totmpFile, or reject ACL-bearing destinations. Add a regression test with a named-user ACL.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@internal/fsutil/rename_xattr_unix.go`:
- Around line 30-31: Update the security.selinux handling in WriteFileAtomic to
ignore only recognized SELinux policy errors, while returning unexpected write
failures such as ENOSPC or EIO. Preserve the existing skip behavior for intended
policy denials, but do not continue on every error from writing the security
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In `@internal/fsutil/rename.go`:
- Around line 79-80: Reorder the WriteFileAtomic staging flow so tmpFile.Write
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then keep tmpFile.Sync after all metadata restoration. Preserve the existing
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- Line 103: Update maybeFormatWrittenFile so Prettier receives absolutePath as
the logical filename, using stdin mode with --stdin-filepath (or an equivalent
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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In the Linux kernel, file_remove_privs is a VFS-level function responsible for clearing security-related file attributes—specifically setuid, setgid, and file capabilities—whenever a file is modified via operations such as write(2) or truncation [1][2][3]. The mechanism functions as follows: 1. Purpose: The primary goal of this function is to prevent unprivileged processes from modifying binaries that possess elevated privileges [1][3]. If a process without sufficient capabilities (specifically CAP_FSETID) modifies a file, the kernel ensures these sensitive permission bits are stripped to maintain system security [4][1]. 2. Integration with write(2): When a user calls write(2) on a file, the kernel eventually invokes file_modified (or similar paths in recent kernel versions) before the data is actually written [1][5][6]. This function calls file_remove_privs [1][2]. 3. Logic: - File Privileges Check: The function first determines if the file requires privilege removal using logic (often split into file_needs_remove_privs in newer kernels) [3]. This check examines the inode for the presence of setuid/setgid bits and file capabilities [1][2][3]. - Privilege Validation: If the file is a regular file and possesses these bits, the kernel checks if the calling process has the CAP_FSETID capability [4]. If the process lacks this capability, the setuid/setgid bits are cleared [4]. - Execution: If removal is required, remove_privs is called to perform the actual update to the file's metadata via notify_change [1][5]. This process ensures that if a user writes to a setuid root binary, the setuid bit is automatically removed, effectively neutralizing the potential for an unprivileged user to gain elevated execution rights through file modification [4][1].
Citations:
- 1: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-xfs/msg61963.html
- 2: https://docs.kernel.org/7.1/filesystems/api-summary.html
- 3: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-xfs/msg61690.html
- 4: https://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2017/01/31/112
- 5: https://lore.gnuweeb.org/gwml/20220616212221.2024518-9-shr@fb.com/
- 6: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/3c2edc36a77420d8be05d656019dbc8c31535992/fs/read_write.c
Restore metadata after writing the staged content.
tmpFile.Chmod, preserveOwner, and preserveXattrs run before tmpFile.Write. On Linux, writing can remove setuid, setgid, and file capabilities. This violates WriteFileAtomic’s documented metadata-preservation contract. Write the data first, then restore the owner, mode, and xattrs before tmpFile.Sync.
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In `@internal/fsutil/rename.go` around lines 79 - 80, Reorder the WriteFileAtomic
staging flow so tmpFile.Write completes before tmpFile.Chmod, preserveOwner, and
preserveXattrs are invoked, then keep tmpFile.Sync after all metadata
restoration. Preserve the existing error handling and metadata values while
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In Prettier version 3, the --stdin-filepath option is used to provide a virtual file path for content passed via standard input (stdin) [1][2]. This path is critical because Prettier uses it to infer the correct parser and, more importantly, to resolve configuration files (such as.prettierrc) as if the input were an actual file located at that path [3][4]. When you provide --stdin-filepath, Prettier triggers its standard configuration resolution logic [4]. This means it will search for the nearest configuration file—including those containing overrides—starting from the directory of the provided file path and traversing up the directory tree [4]. Key behaviors regarding configuration and overrides include: 1. Configuration Resolution: Prettier applies the same configuration resolution process to --stdin-filepath as it does for real files [4]. If a configuration file with overrides is found within the project structure, Prettier will apply these overrides based on the virtual path provided to --stdin-filepath [5][6]. 2. Precedence and CLI Flags: The behavior of how these configurations interact with CLI flags is governed by the --config-precedence option [7][8]: - prefer-file (default): If a configuration file is discovered, Prettier will use it and ignore conflicting CLI flags [7][8]. If no configuration file is found, it will fall back to the CLI flags [7][8]. - file-override: Prettier merges CLI flags with the configuration file, with the configuration file taking precedence [7][8]. - cli-override: Prettier gives precedence to CLI flags over the configuration file [7][8]. 3. Parser Inference: By default, Prettier infers the parser based on the file extension of the path provided to --stdin-filepath [1][5]. When combined with overrides in your configuration file, you can explicitly map specific file patterns or extensions to different parsers if needed [5][6]. Note that it is recommended to define parser overrides only within the overrides section of your configuration, rather than at the top level, to avoid overriding Prettier's automatic inference for all files [5][6]. Essentially, --stdin-filepath effectively "fakes" the presence of a file on the file system, allowing Prettier to apply your project's specific configuration and override rules exactly as it would for a physical file [4].
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- 2: https://prettier.io/docs/cli
- 3: GitHub issue 11889 in prettier/prettier (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 4: GitHub issue 21 in prettier/prettier-cli (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 5: https://prettier.io/docs/configuration
- 6: https://github.com/prettier/prettier/blob/main/docs/configuration.md
- 7: GitHub issue 13354 in prettier/prettier (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 8: GitHub issue 3432 in prettier/prettier (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
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Preserve the destination logical path for Prettier configuration.
When maybeFormatWrittenFile passes stagingName to Prettier, the generated basename can bypass filename-specific overrides for absolutePath. This can publish content that does not match the project’s intended formatting. Use absolutePath as the logical filepath, such as with stdin mode and --stdin-filepath, and add a regression test for a filename-specific override.
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In `@internal/tools/format_on_write.go` at line 103, Update maybeFormatWrittenFile
so Prettier receives absolutePath as the logical filename, using stdin mode with
--stdin-filepath (or an equivalent approach) instead of passing stagingName as
the filename. Preserve the existing formatting flow and add a regression test
covering a filename-specific Prettier configuration override.
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
Merge readiness
- [P1] Run the required CI checks before merge
internal/fsutil/rename.go:24
GitHub currently reports this otherwise mergeable head asBLOCKED; the only completed check is CodeRabbit. This external-contributor branch has previously required a maintainer to release the fork gate, and the required validation has not run onac80ff3. Please have the full CI run complete and resolve any PR-related failures before merge.
Findings
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[P1] Preserve the existing target’s authorization and security metadata
internal/fsutil/rename.go:30
This changes an overwrite from modifying the existing inode to publishing a new sibling inode. On Unix, the helper only snapshotsMode().Perm()fromLstat, applies that mode and UID/GID to the temporary file, and callsrename(2). Rename permission is controlled by the parent directory, so a caller that can modify the directory can replace a mode-0444or ACL-restricted target that the previousos.WriteFilecould not open for writing. The replacement also loses POSIX ACLs, xattrs/capabilities, labels, and special mode bits—or receives broader inherited metadata from the parent—despite retaining basic rwx bits and ownership. That can silently widen access to a protected workspace file or break a consumer that relies on its existing label/capability.Address the root cause: before publishing a replacement, establish the same target-write authorization the old operation required and retain the target’s applicable access-control metadata on the staged inode. If a platform cannot safely preserve a target’s metadata, reject that overwrite before publication rather than publishing a weaker inode. Keep same-directory staging, the new-file umask behavior, and the documented symlink/hard-link policy. Add failure-path coverage for a non-writable target and for ACL/xattr/label-bearing targets on platforms that support each facility.
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[P1] Refuse unsupported existing special-file targets before publication
internal/fsutil/rename.go:33
TheLstatbranch only records metadata for regular files; every other existing file type falls through toReplaceWithRetry. On Unix that eventually callsos.Rename, which replaces the destination directory entry. Awrite_fileoredit_fileaimed at an existing FIFO, socket, or device can therefore delete that endpoint and publish the staged regular file in its place. The old in-placeos.WriteFilewould instead open the endpoint or fail, and would not unlink its name.Address the classification error at the root: explicitly distinguish absent, regular, documented-symlink, directory, and unsupported special-file targets before creating/publishing the staged file. Continue supporting the intended regular-file path and existing documented symlink behavior, but reject unsupported special targets without changing them. Add a regression test using a FIFO (where available) that verifies the call fails and the original endpoint remains a FIFO.
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[P1] Keep format-on-write inside the final atomic publication
internal/tools/write_file.go:118
Both tools first publish requested bytes throughcommittedWrite, then pass the final destination tomaybeFormatWrittenFile. That helper deliberately invokes in-place formatters such asgofmt -w,prettier --write, andclang-format -i. WithZERO_FORMAT_ON_WRITE=1, cancellation, timeout, process death, or an I/O failure during this second write can still leave the final path partly rewritten—the corruption path #921 is meant to eliminate. On a formatter error, the helper returns the pre-format string without rereading or restoring the final path, so FileTracker state and the displayed diff can describe bytes that are no longer on disk. This is not hypothetical for Go files: the Go toolchain’sgofmt -wopens and rewrites the target in place.Fix the lifecycle rather than treating formatter errors as harmless: run the formatter against staged content in an appropriate sibling working path that still observes project configuration, then publish its resulting bytes through the single final atomic replacement. An equivalent approach may atomically republish the formatter output after it succeeds. Preserve opt-in formatting and the current formatter/configuration selection, but do not record FileTracker state or build the result preview until the final formatted bytes have been committed. Add tests for successful formatting and formatter failure/interruption through both tools, proving the previous destination survives until final publication and tracker/display state matches the committed bytes.
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready. This review applies to 292afb3325a0fd3fdceea4ef6183cd72505a60c8.
The special-file refusal, writable-target check, and move to formatting before publication address substantial parts of my previous feedback. The remaining findings concern preserving the existing file's access policy, keeping formatter behavior consistent, and preserving the tools' conflict protection through the new staging phase. There are six product findings and one minor test finding below.
Why this needs an integrated follow-up
The change from os.WriteFile to temp-and-replace moves several responsibilities into this code. An in-place write keeps the original inode and its access-control metadata. A replacement creates a new inode with its own initial permissions and inherited metadata, then changes which inode the destination name refers to. Correct final bytes do not establish that the replacement has the right access policy, or that the bytes were protected while staged.
Formatting introduces a second transition. The temporary path is where the formatter may safely write, but the destination path is still the identity that determines filename-specific configuration. Moving formatting before publication also adds a potentially long interval between the tools' conflict checks and the actual replacement.
These are related causes for the number of findings: the original overwrite's implicit behavior must now be preserved across multiple explicit steps. The current fixes handle important individual steps, but the tests do not yet establish the complete result. For example, copying an existing ACL does not test the absence of an ACL; a successful gofmt test does not test filename-specific configuration; and the new partial-write shim currently corrupts the wrong path.
Please address the findings as one coherent write lifecycle across both tools and their shared helpers, and return with evidence for the complete set of outcomes below. A small shared helper may make those outcomes easier to keep consistent, but the implementation structure is your choice. The requested outcome remains the approved scope of #921: publish complete file contents safely while preserving the existing authorization, formatting, and conflict behavior affected by that change.
Merge readiness
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[P2] Update the branch against current
main—AGENTS.md:75At the checked snapshot, the merge base was
1b5db176andmainwasf30f550e, three commits ahead. GitHub reported the PR as mergeable; those commits did not overlap the changed files or release metadata. The rebase request comes from the repository's freshness rule. There is no verified merge conflict or version rollback being alleged here.Please update the branch and have the resulting diff reviewed. All listed CI checks on
292afb33now pass, including Windows, so the earlier fork-gated CI concern is cleared. Required approvals and repository merge rules still apply.
Findings
1. [P1] Remove inherited access ACLs that the original file does not have
internal/fsutil/rename_xattr_unix.go:21 — also affects the staging flow in internal/fsutil/rename.go:59–81.
Trigger and failure. Start with an existing file owned by the writer, mode 0640, and no extended access ACL. Its parent directory has a default ACL granting an unrelated named user read access—for example, a default ACL added after the existing file was created. The sibling temporary file inherits that entry. Applying the original mode adjusts the ACL mask but does not remove the inherited named-user entry. preserveXattrs then copies only attributes present on the original. Because the original has no system.posix_acl_access, nothing removes the extra ACL on the sibling.
The resulting overwrite succeeds while granting a reader access that the original file denied. This is a change from the previous in-place os.WriteFile, which retained the original inode and access policy.
Evidence. An exact-helper reproduction changed an ACL-free 0640 file into a file containing user:nobody:r-- with a readable mask. An in-place-write control retained the original ACL-free permissions. The existing restrictive-ACL regression tests a different case: the source already has an ACL to copy, so it does not detect this failure.
Root-cause correction. Preserve the original access policy as a complete state, including the absence of an extended ACL. Copying the source's present attributes over inherited destination state is insufficient. Ensure an existing destination cannot gain inherited named-user or named-group access through replacement. Keep ordinary default-ACL inheritance for genuinely new files.
Regression expectation. Test an ACL-free existing file beneath a directory with a default named-user grant. Verify that replacement adds no access beyond the original file's policy. Retain the existing restrictive-source-ACL test and a new-file inheritance case, so fixing overwrites does not accidentally change creation semantics. When an ACL test cannot run on a host, identify the skipped coverage explicitly.
2. [P1] Preserve native macOS ACLs before replacing the inode
internal/fsutil/rename_xattr_unix.go:13 — the build tag selects this implementation on macOS as well as Linux.
Trigger and failure. An owner-writable macOS file can have ordinary mode 0644 and a native ACL denying a particular user read access. Replacing it with a newly created file must preserve that deny. The current Darwin path copies mode, UID/GID, and enumerated xattrs, but has no operation that retrieves and applies the native ACL.
Evidence and platform boundary. Apple's ACL implementation uses the separate FILESEC_ACL interface. Its HFS implementation omits protected security attributes from ordinary xattr listings; the ACL-bearing com.apple.system.Security attribute is in that protected namespace. Thus a successful Listxattr/Getxattr/Fsetxattr loop does not establish that the native ACL was copied. With an otherwise unrestrictive parent, the replacement can lose the explicit deny that an in-place write retained. This is supported by the platform source; I am not claiming a native macOS runtime reproduction. See Apple's ACL implementation, the security-attribute definition, and HFS xattr listing.
Root-cause correction. Give native ACL preservation an explicit supported-platform path. Either preserve the destination's native ACL before replacing it or refuse that overwrite before publication when preservation cannot be established. A common function name and a compiling build tag do not make Linux ACL-as-xattr behavior equivalent to macOS ACL behavior. The implementation mechanism is open; this does not require a general filesystem redesign.
Regression expectation. On macOS, create an owner-writable file with an explicit named-user deny, perform the overwrite, and verify that the deny remains effective or that the operation refuses without altering the original. Exercise a supported filesystem and inspect the native ACL rather than only mode bits or ordinary xattrs. The Linux ACL test cannot stand in for this case.
3. [P1] Protect staging files from their initial creation
internal/fsutil/rename.go:59 — also inspect internal/tools/format_on_write.go:88 for Windows staging.
Trigger and failure on Unix. Both tools pass 0644 to WriteFileAtomic. With a normal permissive umask, overwriting a private 0600 destination therefore creates a readable sibling before Chmod restricts it to the destination mode. The sibling is initially empty, but a directory reader that obtains a read descriptor during that interval retains the descriptor when the replacement bytes are written later. Tightening permissions does not revoke an already-open descriptor. This requires access to the containing directory; it is not a claim that a private directory becomes accessible.
Windows variant. Newly created files inherit the directory's DACL. The Windows preserveOwner/preserveXattrs functions are no-ops, and Go's Chmod does not apply the destination DACL. Consequently the atomic staging file contains replacement bytes before ReplaceFileW copies the destination's DACL. The added formatter staging file similarly receives the inherited DACL and can hold the content throughout formatting. An explicitly restricted destination in a more broadly readable directory therefore has a new exposure path even if the final destination DACL is correct. The existing Windows replacement helper itself documents this inheritance distinction; see also Microsoft's file-security documentation.
Evidence. A syscall-sequence check confirmed creation at 0644, later restriction to 0600, and a descriptor acquired before the restriction reading bytes written afterward. The Windows portion is based on the actual creation/replacement calls and documented DACL behavior, not a claimed native multiuser runtime test.
Root-cause correction. Choose safe creation permissions/security attributes before any observer can open a staging inode. For replacement of an existing protected file, staging must not create a broader access path than the existing file allows. Apply this to both atomic-write staging and formatter staging on the relevant platforms. Preserve protection through ordinary failure cleanup as well as successful publication. A random or hidden filename is not an access-control boundary.
Keep the intended final destination permissions and the existing new-file umask behavior. In particular, changing the initial staging mode must not accidentally make every new user file end up at 0600, or make every existing file take the callers' 0644 mode.
Regression expectation. Check the staging protection at creation, before later metadata restoration, as well as the final destination protection. Cover an existing private Unix file and a Windows destination with a restrictive explicit DACL in a more permissive parent. Where practical, use a deterministic staging boundary to demonstrate that an otherwise unauthorized reader cannot obtain a usable handle; a final-mode-only assertion misses this issue. Include formatter staging in the Windows case.
4. [P1] Revalidate the destination after the formatter wait
internal/tools/write_file.go:115 — the corresponding edit path is internal/tools/edit_file.go:161.
Trigger and failure. Both tools perform their conflict checks before entering the formatter. The new ordering then waits for formatting, potentially for ten seconds, and publishes without rechecking the destination. A user can save a newer edit during that interval. The tool overwrites those bytes and records its stale replacement as the new FileTracker baseline.
Evidence and attribution. A controlled test populated FileTracker with the original file and its seen range, started a formatter that waited and then exited unsuccessfully, and saved an external edit during the wait. That external edit survived with the merge-base and current-main implementations because the tool's write had already occurred before formatting. On this head, the unformatted fallback was published after the wait and destroyed the external edit. Both tools exhibit the difference.
The older code already had a short check-to-write race. This finding concerns the materially larger interval newly introduced by placing a subprocess between the existing guards and publication. It does not claim that this PR introduced every concurrent-write race. The same ordering also leaves the earlier overwrite:false existence decision stale if another process creates the target during formatting.
Root-cause correction. Tie final publication back to the content/existence state that authorized the operation. After formatting and immediately before publication, reject a changed existing destination or a newly appeared destination that the call was not authorized to overwrite. Use the existing conflict and overwrite semantics in both callers; adding the check to only edit_file leaves write_file exposed. Keep formatting on staged content.
This is a request to maintain the existing protection through the new wait, not a requirement for a global concurrent-editor transaction system or a new promise of race-free writes under every interleaving.
Regression expectation. Hold the formatter at a deterministic boundary, change the destination externally, then release the formatter. Verify that the tool refuses the stale operation, preserves the external bytes, and does not rebaseline the tracker or report success as if its proposed bytes were committed. Cover both tools and a write_file creation with overwrite:false. Include the ordinary formatter-error fallback used by the demonstrated failure, since it must not bypass the final guard.
5. [P2] Return unexpected SELinux label-copy errors
internal/fsutil/rename_xattr_unix.go:30.
Trigger and failure. The current exception ignores every Fsetxattr error for security.selinux, including EIO and ENOSPC. If the temporary inode has a different default label and copying the destination label fails, the helper can continue through content write, sync, and replacement. A storage failure while setting an xattr does not establish that those later operations will also fail. Success can therefore publish the default label rather than the original file's label.
The previous in-place write retained the labeled inode and did not need this relabeling step. CodeRabbit's request to distinguish unexpected errors remains unaddressed.
Evidence. The error branch unconditionally continues based on the attribute name; it neither classifies the error nor establishes that the correct label is already present. This is source-level failure-path evidence. Native SELinux fault injection was not performed.
Root-cause correction. Handle the label-copy operation as a preservation step with an explicit error policy. Return unexpected storage errors before replacement so the original destination remains intact. If recognized policy-denial errors have an intended compatibility exception, keep that exception narrowly classified; do not use the attribute name as permission to suppress every possible failure. This finding does not ask for a different SELinux policy or a general labeling subsystem.
Regression expectation. Exercise the error decision with an unexpected label-copy error such as EIO or ENOSPC. Verify that no replacement is published, the original bytes remain, and the caller receives a write failure. Keep any intended recognized-policy-error behavior separately covered, so narrowing the exception does not silently change that behavior. A controlled error seam is sufficient to test the decision without requiring a genuinely full filesystem.
6. [P2] Give the formatter the destination's logical filename
internal/tools/format_on_write.go:103.
Trigger and failure. The formatter now receives .zero-fmt-<random>.js where it previously received, for example, special.js. Sharing the parent directory preserves discovery of the configuration file, but it does not preserve matching against the destination's filename. Per-file overrides, ignore entries, and filename-sensitive parser selection can therefore differ.
Evidence. With a Prettier override selecting single quotes for special.js, the previous implementation produces single quotes. This head produces double quotes under the default configuration, then publishes and tracks that result. The difference was reproduced with the same content and configuration against the head and both baseline implementations. CodeRabbit's request to preserve the logical filename remains unaddressed. Prettier's override contract explicitly depends on matching file paths.
Root-cause correction. Keep the logical destination identity distinct from the physical staging path. The formatter may write safely to staging, but its configuration/parser/ignore decisions must use the intended destination. For Prettier, its logical-path input facilities are one possible mechanism; the required outcome is correct destination-based behavior, not a prescribed implementation. Review the existing formatter adapters affected by the same argument construction rather than assuming that retaining an extension preserves all their filename semantics.
Keep the current opt-in behavior, formatter selection, and best-effort fallback. Do not solve filename identity by restoring in-place formatting of the final destination, which would reopen the corruption path this PR addresses.
Regression expectation. Use a real filename-specific override and verify the expected published bytes. Include an explicit filename-based ignore case so an intentionally excluded file does not become eligible merely because it has a generated staging name. Verify disk content, tracker content, and the preview agree after successful publication. Retain the existing gofmt success coverage; it exercises a different dimension.
7. [P3] Make the failure shim corrupt the actual formatter target
internal/tools/format_on_write_test.go:184.
Trigger and failure. Production invokes gofmt -w <path>, so $1 in the shim is -w. The line printf 'PARTIAL' > "$1" creates a separate file named -w in the formatter's working directory and leaves the staging file unchanged. The fixture then exits with an error.
Evidence and impact. Running the shim with the production argument shape leaves the staged content unchanged while the sibling named -w contains PARTIAL. The test still usefully checks that the formatter observes the previous destination before publication. However, its assertions about not publishing partial formatter output cannot detect a regression in discarding an actual partial staged rewrite. This is a test defect, not a separate demonstrated production corruption bug.
Root-cause correction. Make the fake obey the formatter's actual command-line contract and corrupt the real path argument. Then assert the intended fallback precisely, rather than only checking that the destination does not contain a sentinel.
Regression expectation. Prove that the staging file was actually changed before the fake exits unsuccessfully. After the tool finishes, assert exact unformatted fallback bytes on disk and a matching tracker baseline for both tools. Keep the assertion that the old destination remains intact while formatting is in progress. The test should fail if the helper is deliberately changed to publish the failed formatter's partial staging output.
Consolidated implementation and validation guidance
Please trace the two tool calls through preparation, staging, optional formatting, final validation, publication, and result recording as a single operation. The following checks summarize the findings and the existing behaviors that the correction needs to retain:
| Boundary | Required outcome |
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| Existing versus new destination | Existing access policy is preserved, including absence of an ACL; genuinely new files retain intended umask and default-ACL behavior. |
| Staging creation | A replacement's temporary files do not provide a broader access path to protected content from their initial creation. |
| Formatting | Physical writes remain staged while logical filename decisions use the destination identity. |
| Return from formatter | Ordinary failure fallback still respects the destination's current content/existence authorization before publication. |
| Metadata preservation | Supported-platform access controls are handled by the appropriate facilities; unexpected preservation errors stop before replacement. |
| Before publication | The previous destination survives the demonstrated stale-state and metadata-failure cases. |
| After publication | FileTracker, preview, changed-file reporting, and success describe the bytes actually committed. Keep the existing distinction between a failed replacement and a committed replacement with a backup-cleanup warning. |
| Regression tests | Each fixture reaches the failure it names, and the relevant assertion fails when that correction is removed. |
The permissions findings are independently actionable because they concern different boundaries: Linux ACL absence at the final destination, native macOS ACL restoration, and access to temporary files before the final destination exists. Fixing only the final ACL cannot revoke a handle already opened on staging. Likewise, preserving the logical filename does not fix a stale conflict check after the formatter wait. Please validate the combined path after making the individual corrections.
For the follow-up, provide a concise mapping from each numbered finding to its change and regression evidence, including which platform-specific tests ran and which were unavailable or skipped. Run the focused filesystem/tool tests and relevant platform CI on the complete follow-up head. Passing compilation or unrelated smoke tests should not be presented as proof of native ACL or failure-path behavior that they do not exercise.
Scope boundaries for the follow-up
These requests do not add a cancellation/no-write guarantee: the approved atomicity requirement allows either original or fully updated content rather than partial corruption. They also do not require a global rooted-filesystem or concurrent-editor transaction architecture, preservation of privilege bits that ordinary writes would remove, changes to the documented link policy, support for additional release platforms, or adoption of another unmerged PR's behavior.
Keep the corrections within the affected two tools, staging/formatting helpers, platform preservation paths, and their tests. If evidence exposes a product-policy choice beyond those existing contracts, identify it explicitly instead of silently widening the implementation. The aim of this consolidated feedback is one complete correction of the demonstrated paths, with enough regression evidence to avoid another round that merely moves the same failure to a different stage.
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Re-approving at 292afb33 for the parts I can stand behind from here; jatmn's round at this head is the one that gates it.
What the three commits add reads right. A regular destination is now opened for write before anything is staged, so a file the caller could not have written in place is not silently replaced through the rename; its mode, owner and xattrs are copied onto the temp file, and a copy that cannot be made fails the write and leaves the destination alone; FIFOs, devices, sockets and directories are refused before staging. On Windows the owner and xattr steps are no-ops, which is correct for the model this package uses there, and the Windows refusal of a symlink destination I approved earlier is unchanged. I vetted the package for linux, darwin, freebsd and windows, and fsutil and tools are green here natively; the ACL, owner and xattr tests are Unix-only and I have not run them.
Two things worth knowing, neither blocking. The owner copy means a file owned by a different uid, writable to this user through group or other bits, now fails to save rather than silently changing owner, where base wrote in place and kept the owner; that is the more honest outcome, but a shared checkout with root-owned files will notice it, and a fallback to an in-place write for that one case would keep base's behaviour without giving up atomicity elsewhere. And the format-on-write staging here formats a sibling temp file in the destination's directory, which keeps project config discovery working; #685 moved the same function's staging into the system temp directory for a different reason and lost that, so whichever lands second will conflict, and my note on #685 about feeding formatters over stdin with a filename hint applies to both.
The branch conflicts with main and needs that merge before it can go in.
…t_file (fixes Gitlawb#921) Direct in-place writes via os.WriteFile risk leaving target files empty or truncated if the process is cancelled, killed, or crashes mid-write. This introduces fsutil.WriteFileAtomic, which writes to an adjacent temporary file, flushes and syncs to disk, and replaces the target file via atomic rename using ReplaceWithRetry to handle transient Windows lock issues.
WriteFileAtomic now keeps existing Unix permission bits on replace and only applies perm for a new file. A failed replace leaves the destination intact and removes the temp file. Callers surface CommittedReplacementCleanupError as a warning after re-baselining, not as a failed write.
…sertion on Windows and restore non-retryable test
…vior in WriteFileAtomic
Rename publishes a new inode. Copying only Perm() would leave the writer as owner. posixChown applies the Lstat uid/gid before publish.
syscall.Stat_t is not defined for GOOS=windows. preserveOwner lives in rename_owner_unix.go; the Windows stub is a no-op.
Copy Linux POSIX ACLs including their absence, Darwin FILESEC via getattrlist/setattrlist, and the destination DACL onto Windows staging before write. Recheck the target after format-on-write, fail closed on unexpected SELinux xattr errors, and run Prettier with --stdin-filepath.
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Make publication conditional on the expected destination state.
Both edit_file and write_file compare the destination before calling committedWrite. fsutil.WriteFileAtomic then calls ReplaceWithRetry, which unconditionally replaces the destination. A modification after either comparison can therefore be overwritten.
Add compare-and-replace semantics to the shared publication boundary. Pass the expected bytes, or expected absence for a new file, from both callers. Add timing tests for both paths.
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In `@internal/tools/edit_file.go` around lines 164 - 167, Update the shared
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I found four issues that need to be addressed before this is ready: three production issues and one P3 regression-test issue. This review is against 580e0ce7, with merge base 6937a309 and captured main at c1937dfa.
Several earlier requests are now corrected: Linux removes an inherited access ACL when the original has none; both tools revalidate the destination after formatting; Prettier receives the real filename; unexpected SELinux copy errors are classified; and the partial-formatter failure fixture now corrupts the actual staging argument and checks the exact fallback bytes. Please preserve those corrections while addressing the remaining issues.
I want the next revision to address these paths together. The requested outcome remains the approved purpose of #921: publish complete file contents safely while retaining the existing authorization, formatting, and conflict behavior affected by replacing in-place writes.
Merge readiness
- [P2] Update against current
mainbefore merge. The merge base is6937a309, while capturedmainisc1937dfa, two commits ahead.AGENTS.mdrequires a fresh base. GitHub reports mergeable, with no conflict; those two commits do not overlap this diff or change release metadata. Please update the branch and have the resolved diff reviewed. This is a freshness requirement, not an allegation that the PR rolls back those commits.
All listed checks pass, including the three platform smoke jobs. GitHub still reports BLOCKED with CHANGES_REQUESTED; passing checks do not clear the findings below.
Why the fixes have left related gaps
The repeated gaps have a common technical cause: an in-place write implicitly retains the destination inode and its access policy, and an in-place formatter receives the destination filename. This PR replaces those implicit properties with several explicit steps. The resulting operation now has to carry the right state through destination inspection, formatter staging, atomic staging, metadata restoration, replacement, and result recording.
The current corrections handle important individual steps, but a property established at one step does not automatically hold at the others. Correct final permissions do not protect a handle opened earlier. Copying a present ACL does not restore the absence of an ACL. Fixing Prettier's filename does not change Ruff's arguments. Rejecting a directory safely does not exercise cleanup after replacement fails.
That explains the remaining findings without expanding the feature request. Please reason about the two tools as complete operations and review each correction's affected sibling path before returning the next revision. A small shared staging or formatting helper may make those obligations easier to maintain, but the implementation structure is your choice. The goal is to close the demonstrated failure paths together, rather than add another special case that moves the same problem to a different stage.
Findings
1. [P1] Protect both staging copies from their initial creation
internal/fsutil/rename.go:75; also internal/tools/format_on_write.go:146–152.
Trigger and failure. The earlier staging-access request is only partially addressed. Creating the atomic sibling with the destination's mode fixes a plain 0600 case, but mode bits do not describe the complete ACL. An ACL-free 0640 destination beneath a directory with a default named-user read grant produces a temporarily readable sibling. Likewise, a 0644 destination with a named-user deny produces a sibling without that deny until preserveXattrs runs. A reader allowed by the initial policy can open the empty sibling and retain that descriptor after the policy is tightened. It then reads the replacement bytes written later.
Evidence. The exact helper's creation observer showed the inherited named-user grant, followed by its removal at publication; a descriptor retained from that initial stage still read replacement secret. This verifies the ACL transition and retained-descriptor behavior, rather than claiming a separate-user race was executed.
On Windows, atomic staging similarly inherits its parent DACL before protectStaging runs. More directly, the formatter copy uses os.CreateTemp and immediately writes the entire content without any destination-DACL protection. Go's 0600 does not establish an owner-only Windows DACL. With a restrictive destination inside a more permissive directory, the .zero-fmt-* copy is readable throughout formatting; later protection of a different .zero-tmp-* file cannot undo that disclosure. This Windows path is established by the calls and Microsoft's file-security contract, not a local Windows execution.
Cause and attribution. Both baseline implementations wrote and formatted the existing protected inode; these additional access paths come from the new copies. The invariant needs to hold when a copy first becomes accessible, not only immediately before its first write. A hidden or random filename reduces predictability but does not establish an access boundary for a user who can observe the directory. This scenario requires access to the containing directory; it does not make an already private directory accessible.
Root-cause correction. Establish safe access when each staging object is created, and retain it until that object is published or removed. The initial creation policy must account for inherited ACLs and platform security descriptors as well as mode bits. Applying restrictions after creation cannot revoke a descriptor already obtained. Recheck the entire sequence before widening staging permissions to their intended final state; introducing a new exposure window at that transition would leave the same issue unresolved.
Apply that outcome to both .zero-tmp-* and .zero-fmt-*. Protecting only the file used by WriteFileAtomic does not protect the earlier formatter copy. The mechanism is open: the correction need not introduce a public API or a repository-wide filesystem redesign. If the required protection cannot be established, do not proceed with an exposed copy.
Regression expectation. Exercise the beginning and end of the staging lifetime:
- On Linux, use a destination with narrower effective access than a newly inherited sibling, covering a source named-user deny or an ACL-free source beneath a default named-user grant. Observe the initial staging boundary, not just its final ACL.
- On Windows, use a permissive inheritable parent DACL and a restrictive existing destination. Cover the non-Prettier formatter path as well as
WriteFileAtomic. - Where a second-principal fixture is available, prove that a reader denied access to the destination cannot obtain a usable staging handle. A deterministic creation boundary can expose the relevant interval without a timing-dependent stress test. If a platform or principal fixture is unavailable, report that limitation rather than treating a mode-only assertion as equivalent evidence.
- Verify successful publication and ordinary failure cleanup retain the intended protections. Keep the final destination permissions and new-file umask/inheritance behavior; securing temporary creation must not accidentally leave every new user file at a different final mode.
The Windows formatter exposure does not require winning the short atomic-staging race: the copy holds content throughout formatter execution. Both variants belong to the same requirement that temporary copies must not widen readership.
2. [P1] Preserve the absence of a native macOS ACL
internal/fsutil/rename_acl_darwin.go:21–23.
Trigger and failure. When the original has no native ACL, readNativeACL returns nil and this function leaves the staging file's inherited ACL untouched. For example, an existing owner-only file can have its ACL removed while its parent retains a file-inheritable grant to another user. The new sibling inherits that grant; copying mode, owner, and ordinary xattrs does not remove the native ACL. Replacement can therefore succeed with access the original file denied.
Evidence and platform boundary. Apple's creation path inherits parent ACL entries. Its attribute-list implementation emits an empty extended-security payload for a null ACL, which reaches this early return. Removing system.posix_acl_access in the shared xattr helper handles Linux's representation, not Darwin's native ACL. The current Darwin test starts with a nonempty deny ACL, so it does not exercise this absence case. This finding is supported by platform source; I did not run a native macOS reproduction.
Cause and attribution. The previous in-place write kept the ACL-free inode. Here, nil is treated as “nothing needs doing,” although the new inode may already contain inherited access state. The absence of a source ACL is itself meaningful state to preserve. The Linux correction already handles the analogous absence case in its own representation; the Darwin branch needs an explicit outcome too.
Root-cause correction. Distinguish a verified absence of a native ACL from failure to determine its state. For an existing destination, restore the complete original native ACL state, including removing inherited entries when the original has none, or refuse before publication when preservation cannot be established. Keep ordinary inheritance for genuinely new files. The required outcome is preservation of existing access, not use of a particular native API or conversion of Darwin ACLs into Linux xattrs.
Regression expectation. On macOS, create an existing restricted file with no native ACL in a directory that grants another user file-inheritable read access. Establish those preconditions independently of the helper under test. An overwrite must either succeed without adding that access or fail while leaving the original unchanged. Inspect the native ACL and, where feasible, effective readership; a mode-only comparison cannot establish the result. Retain the existing nonempty-deny case and a new-file inheritance control so an absence fix does not disable intended creation behavior.
This is a final-policy defect separate from finding 1. Making initial staging private does not prevent inherited grants from surviving publication. Removing those grants at publication also cannot revoke a handle acquired during unsafe creation. Both boundaries need to be correct.
3. [P2] Preserve Ruff's logical destination filename too
internal/tools/format_on_write.go:161.
Trigger and failure. The Prettier correction does not cover the other filename-sensitive formatter already in this registry. With Ruff configured as:
force-exclude = true
[format]
exclude = ["special.py"]formatting special.py leaves x= [1,2,3] unchanged. The new helper instead passes .zero-fmt-<random>.py, which is not excluded, and publishes x = [1, 2, 3]. This was reproduced through write_file with Ruff 0.16.7: the same regression passes with the merge-base and current-main implementations and fails at this head. edit_file shares the helper. Ruff documents its filename-based configuration and exclusion behavior.
Root-cause correction. Keep the logical destination identity distinct from the physical file that a formatter is allowed to modify. The current fallback assumes that retaining the extension and parent directory preserves formatting semantics, but Ruff's exclusion decision depends on the basename too. Carry the real destination identity through Ruff's configuration/exclusion decision while continuing to isolate physical writes from the destination. Leave the choice of adapter or invocation mechanism open.
Inspect the existing formatter adapters affected by this shared argument construction when making the correction. This finding demonstrates Ruff's exclusion failure; it does not assert that every other formatter is broken, require support for additional formatters, or require a new formatter framework. Retaining a working Prettier special case alone cannot establish that an existing sibling has the same behavior.
Regression expectation. Use the shown Ruff configuration and verify that the excluded destination retains the exact supplied bytes through write_file and the shared edit path. Include a nearby nonexcluded file as a control so simply disabling Ruff cannot satisfy the test. Check the published bytes and the corresponding tracker/preview behavior. Keep the real Prettier override/ignore tests and existing successful gofmt coverage.
Preserve opt-in behavior, timeout reporting, and ordinary failure fallback. Restoring in-place formatting of the destination would reopen the corruption issue. An intentional project exclusion must continue to be respected even though formatting is enabled globally.
4. [P3] Make the replacement-failure test reach replacement
internal/fsutil/rename_test.go:121–130.
Trigger and evidence. TestWriteFileAtomicLeavesDestinationOnReplaceFailure supplies a directory. The new nonregular-destination guard rejects it before any temporary file is created, so its no-leftover assertion no longer exercises replacement-failure cleanup. Deliberately removing the deferred temporary-file removal leaves this test passing. The platform primitive tests do not cover the new wrapper's ownership of that temporary file.
Root-cause correction. Separate validation refusal from failure after the helper owns a staging file. The directory fixture remains useful for the former; it cannot establish the latter once validation returns before creation. Keep the refusal test and exercise a replacement failure after complete staging. A controlled internal failure seam is one possible approach; no particular injection mechanism or exported test API is required.
Regression expectation. Establish that staging and the replacement attempt actually occurred, make that attempt fail, and assert all three outcomes: the original bytes remain, the operation reports a failure, and the helper removes its owned temporary file. Then demonstrate that disabling the relevant cleanup causes the test to fail for the expected leftover, rather than passing because an earlier guard prevented creation. Avoid permission-only fixtures that silently behave differently under elevated users or on another supported platform.
This remains a P3 test defect. It does not establish a separate production corruption bug, and the requested test should not be described as proof of behaviors it never reaches.
Integrated follow-up guidance
Please trace both write_file and edit_file through this sequence after the corrections:
- Resolve and inspect the destination, retaining the current content/existence and authorization checks.
- If formatting is enabled, prepare protected formatter input and use the logical destination for filename-dependent decisions.
- Preserve the existing post-formatter conflict check, including ordinary formatter failure fallback and a destination created while a new-file operation waits.
- Prepare the atomic replacement with safe initial access, then restore the complete destination metadata state, including absence where applicable.
- Publish only complete content. On an ordinary pre-commit failure, retain the original and clean up owned staging. Preserve the existing distinction between an uncommitted failure and a committed replacement whose backup cleanup produced a warning.
- Record the content actually committed in FileTracker and the preview/result. Keep the existing distinction between model-known edits and formatter-modified content when preserving seen ranges.
This sequence describes the already affected operation; it is not a request for a general transaction architecture. The following checks connect the fixes so that correcting one stage does not undo another:
| Boundary | Outcome to retain or establish |
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| Existing versus new destination | Preserve an existing file's access state, including ACL absence; retain intended umask/default inheritance for new files. |
| First accessible staging object | No broader readership than the protected destination, before any later metadata adjustment. |
| Formatter input | Protected physical copy and correct logical filename; both properties must hold together. |
| Formatter success or failure | Return complete formatted or fallback bytes and preserve the destination's current conflict/existence guard. |
| Final native metadata | Successful replacement does not acquire inherited access absent from the original. |
| Failed replacement | The original survives and owned staging is removed; the test actually reaches this boundary. |
| Committed replacement | Tracker, preview, changed-file reporting, and success describe committed content; cleanup warnings remain distinguishable from failed writes. |
For the next revision, please provide a concise mapping from each of the four findings to its correction and regression evidence. Include which supported-platform tests ran, which were unavailable or skipped, and the failure produced when the corresponding correction or cleanup was deliberately removed. A shared cause should be corrected across its affected callers before requesting another review; a passing happy-path test or a resolved comment alone does not establish that result.
Please also update comments that describe the corrected behavior. For example, the statement that Prettier is the only formatter here whose behavior depends on filename is contradicted by the Ruff reproduction. Describe the actual supported invocation contract without promising more than the implementation and tests establish.
Validation and scope
The focused filesystem race suite passes, including Linux ACL tests. Focused write/edit/formatter race tests and vet pass; real Prettier override/ignore tests pass. Additional error-exiting formatter checks confirm that external changes are preserved for editing, overwriting, and new-file creation. Darwin arm64 and Windows amd64 filesystem test binaries compile; native access-control execution on those platforms was not performed locally.
The approved value of #921 remains clear: protect user source files from partial writes. #988's encoding work and #685's broader token/path work overlap these helpers but do not supersede that purpose. Their unmerged behavior is not a requirement for this PR.
Keep the correction scope within the affected two tools, their staging/metadata/formatter helpers, and their tests. The findings ask for existing contracts to survive the new replacement operation. They do not add a cancellation/no-write guarantee: the approved atomicity goal permits original or fully updated content rather than a partially corrupted file. They also do not request universal compare-and-swap writes, a global rooted-filesystem containment redesign, privilege restoration beyond ordinary-write semantics, reversal of the documented link policy, or support for additional platforms.
If a correction requires a material product or compatibility choice beyond those outcomes, identify that choice before broadening the implementation. The objective for this follow-up is one integrated correction of the demonstrated paths, with evidence at the stages where the previous tests missed them.
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Fixes #921 (Z-075)
Summary
Direct in-place writes using
os.WriteFilecan truncate and corrupt target files if an operation is cancelled, killed by timeout, or crashes during execution.Changes
fsutil.WriteFileAtomicwhich writes to an adjacent temporary file (os.CreateTemp), executesSync(), and replaces the target atomically usingfsutil.ReplaceWithRetryacross Unix and Windows.write_fileandedit_filetools to usefsutil.WriteFileAtomic.internal/fsutil/rename_test.govalidating atomic creation and overwrites.Validation
go test -race ./internal/fsutil/... ./internal/tools/...passes cleanly with zero regressions.Summary by CodeRabbit