// Handle pid file based locking. package lockfile import ( "errors" "fmt" "io/ioutil" "os" "path/filepath" ) type Lockfile string var ( ErrBusy = errors.New("Locked by other process") // If you get this, retry after a short sleep might help ErrNeedAbsPath = errors.New("Lockfiles must be given as absolute path names") ErrInvalidPid = errors.New("Lockfile contains invalid pid for system") ErrDeadOwner = errors.New("Lockfile contains pid of process not existent on this system anymore") ) // Describe a new filename located at path. It is expected to be an absolute path func New(path string) (Lockfile, error) { if !filepath.IsAbs(path) { return Lockfile(""), ErrNeedAbsPath } return Lockfile(path), nil } // Who owns the lockfile? func (l Lockfile) GetOwner() (*os.Process, error) { name := string(l) // Ok, see, if we have a stale lockfile here content, err := ioutil.ReadFile(name) if err != nil { return nil, err } var pid int _, err = fmt.Sscanln(string(content), &pid) if err != nil { return nil, ErrInvalidPid } // try hard for pids. If no pid, the lockfile is junk anyway and we delete it. if pid > 0 { running, err := isRunning(pid) if err != nil { return nil, err } if running { proc, err := os.FindProcess(pid) if err != nil { return nil, err } return proc, nil } else { return nil, ErrDeadOwner } } else { return nil, ErrInvalidPid } panic("Not reached") } // Try to get Lockfile lock. Returns nil, if successful and and error describing the reason, it didn't work out. // Please note, that existing lockfiles containing pids of dead processes and lockfiles containing no pid at all // are deleted. func (l Lockfile) TryLock() error { name := string(l) // This has been checked by New already. If we trigger here, // the caller didn't use New and re-implemented it's functionality badly. // So panic, that he might find this easily during testing. if !filepath.IsAbs(string(name)) { panic(ErrNeedAbsPath) } tmplock, err := ioutil.TempFile(filepath.Dir(name), "") if err != nil { return err } else { defer tmplock.Close() defer os.Remove(tmplock.Name()) } _, err = tmplock.WriteString(fmt.Sprintf("%d\n", os.Getpid())) if err != nil { return err } // return value intentionally ignored, as ignoring it is part of the algorithm _ = os.Link(tmplock.Name(), name) fiTmp, err := os.Lstat(tmplock.Name()) if err != nil { return err } fiLock, err := os.Lstat(name) if err != nil { return err } // Success if os.SameFile(fiTmp, fiLock) { return nil } _, err = l.GetOwner() switch err { default: // Other errors -> defensively fail and let caller handle this return err case nil: return ErrBusy case ErrDeadOwner, ErrInvalidPid: // cases we can fix below } // clean stale/invalid lockfile err = os.Remove(name) if err != nil { return err } // now that we cleaned up the stale lockfile, let's recurse return l.TryLock() } // Release a lock again. Returns any error that happend during release of lock. func (l Lockfile) Unlock() error { return os.Remove(string(l)) }