# file.py -- Safe access to git files # Copyright (C) 2010 Google, Inc. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License # as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 # of the License or (at your option) a later version of the License. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, # MA 02110-1301, USA. """Safe access to git files.""" import errno import os import tempfile import io def ensure_dir_exists(dirname): """Ensure a directory exists, creating if necessary.""" try: os.makedirs(dirname) except OSError as e: if e.errno != errno.EEXIST: raise def fancy_rename(oldname, newname): """Rename file with temporary backup file to rollback if rename fails""" if not os.path.exists(newname): try: os.rename(oldname, newname) except OSError: raise return # destination file exists try: (fd, tmpfile) = tempfile.mkstemp(".tmp", prefix=oldname+".", dir=".") os.close(fd) os.remove(tmpfile) except OSError: # either file could not be created (e.g. permission problem) # or could not be deleted (e.g. rude virus scanner) raise try: os.rename(newname, tmpfile) except OSError: raise # no rename occurred try: os.rename(oldname, newname) except OSError: os.rename(tmpfile, newname) raise os.remove(tmpfile) def GitFile(filename, mode='rb', bufsize=-1): """Create a file object that obeys the git file locking protocol. :return: a builtin file object or a _GitFile object :note: See _GitFile for a description of the file locking protocol. Only read-only and write-only (binary) modes are supported; r+, w+, and a are not. To read and write from the same file, you can take advantage of the fact that opening a file for write does not actually open the file you request. """ if 'a' in mode: raise IOError('append mode not supported for Git files') if '+' in mode: raise IOError('read/write mode not supported for Git files') if 'b' not in mode: raise IOError('text mode not supported for Git files') if 'w' in mode: return _GitFile(filename, mode, bufsize) else: return io.open(filename, mode, bufsize) class _GitFile(object): """File that follows the git locking protocol for writes. All writes to a file foo will be written into foo.lock in the same directory, and the lockfile will be renamed to overwrite the original file on close. :note: You *must* call close() or abort() on a _GitFile for the lock to be released. Typically this will happen in a finally block. """ PROXY_PROPERTIES = set(['closed', 'encoding', 'errors', 'mode', 'name', 'newlines', 'softspace']) PROXY_METHODS = ('__iter__', 'flush', 'fileno', 'isatty', 'read', 'readline', 'readlines', 'seek', 'tell', 'truncate', 'write', 'writelines') def __init__(self, filename, mode, bufsize): self._filename = filename self._lockfilename = '%s.lock' % self._filename fd = os.open(self._lockfilename, os.O_RDWR | os.O_CREAT | os.O_EXCL | getattr(os, "O_BINARY", 0)) self._file = os.fdopen(fd, mode, bufsize) self._closed = False for method in self.PROXY_METHODS: setattr(self, method, getattr(self._file, method)) def abort(self): """Close and discard the lockfile without overwriting the target. If the file is already closed, this is a no-op. """ if self._closed: return self._file.close() try: os.remove(self._lockfilename) self._closed = True except OSError as e: # The file may have been removed already, which is ok. if e.errno != errno.ENOENT: raise self._closed = True def close(self): """Close this file, saving the lockfile over the original. :note: If this method fails, it will attempt to delete the lockfile. However, it is not guaranteed to do so (e.g. if a filesystem becomes suddenly read-only), which will prevent future writes to this file until the lockfile is removed manually. :raises OSError: if the original file could not be overwritten. The lock file is still closed, so further attempts to write to the same file object will raise ValueError. """ if self._closed: return self._file.flush() os.fsync(self._file.fileno()) self._file.close() try: try: os.rename(self._lockfilename, self._filename) except OSError as e: # Windows versions prior to Vista don't support atomic renames if e.errno != errno.EEXIST: raise fancy_rename(self._lockfilename, self._filename) finally: self.abort() def __enter__(self): return self def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb): self.close() def __getattr__(self, name): """Proxy property calls to the underlying file.""" if name in self.PROXY_PROPERTIES: return getattr(self._file, name) raise AttributeError(name)