1 /* Lock files for editing.
3 Copyright (C) 1985-1987, 1993-1994, 1996, 1998-2014
4 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
7 (according to authors.el)
9 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
11 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
12 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
13 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
14 (at your option) any later version.
16 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
17 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
18 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
19 GNU General Public License for more details.
21 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
22 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
26 #include <sys/types.h>
40 #include <sys/sysctl.h>
41 #endif /* __FreeBSD__ */
48 #include "character.h"
54 #include <sys/socket.h> /* for fcntl */
55 #include "w32.h" /* for dostounix_filename */
58 #ifdef CLASH_DETECTION
64 /* A file whose last-modified time is just after the most recent boot.
65 Define this to be NULL to disable checking for this file. */
66 #ifndef BOOT_TIME_FILE
67 #define BOOT_TIME_FILE "/var/run/random-seed"
71 #define WTMP_FILE "/var/log/wtmp"
74 /* Normally use a symbolic link to represent a lock.
75 The strategy: to lock a file FN, create a symlink .#FN in FN's
76 directory, with link data `user@host.pid'. This avoids a single
77 mount (== failure) point for lock files.
79 When the host in the lock data is the current host, we can check if
80 the pid is valid with kill.
82 Otherwise, we could look at a separate file that maps hostnames to
83 reboot times to see if the remote pid can possibly be valid, since we
84 don't want Emacs to have to communicate via pipes or sockets or
85 whatever to other processes, either locally or remotely; rms says
86 that's too unreliable. Hence the separate file, which could
87 theoretically be updated by daemons running separately -- but this
88 whole idea is unimplemented; in practice, at least in our
89 environment, it seems such stale locks arise fairly infrequently, and
90 Emacs' standard methods of dealing with clashes suffice.
92 We use symlinks instead of normal files because (1) they can be
93 stored more efficiently on the filesystem, since the kernel knows
94 they will be small, and (2) all the info about the lock can be read
95 in a single system call (readlink). Although we could use regular
96 files to be useful on old systems lacking symlinks, nowadays
97 virtually all such systems are probably single-user anyway, so it
98 didn't seem worth the complication.
100 Similarly, we don't worry about a possible 14-character limit on
101 file names, because those are all the same systems that don't have
104 This is compatible with the locking scheme used by Interleaf (which
105 has contributed this implementation for Emacs), and was designed by
106 Ethan Jacobson, Kimbo Mundy, and others.
108 --karl@cs.umb.edu/karl@hq.ileaf.com.
110 On some file systems, notably those of MS-Windows, symbolic links
111 do not work well, so instead of a symlink .#FN -> 'user@host.pid',
112 the lock is a regular file .#FN with contents 'user@host.pid'. To
113 establish a lock, a nonce file is created and then renamed to .#FN.
114 On MS-Windows this renaming is atomic unless the lock is forcibly
115 acquired. On other systems the renaming is atomic if the lock is
116 forcibly acquired; if not, the renaming is done via hard links,
117 which is good enough for lock-file purposes.
119 To summarize, race conditions can occur with either:
121 * Forced locks on MS-Windows systems.
123 * Non-forced locks on non-MS-Windows systems that support neither
124 hard nor symbolic links. */
127 /* Return the time of the last system boot. */
129 static time_t boot_time
;
130 static bool boot_time_initialized
;
133 static void get_boot_time_1 (const char *, bool);
139 #if defined (BOOT_TIME)
143 if (boot_time_initialized
)
145 boot_time_initialized
= 1;
147 #if defined (CTL_KERN) && defined (KERN_BOOTTIME)
151 struct timeval boottime_val
;
154 mib
[1] = KERN_BOOTTIME
;
155 size
= sizeof (boottime_val
);
157 if (sysctl (mib
, 2, &boottime_val
, &size
, NULL
, 0) >= 0)
159 boot_time
= boottime_val
.tv_sec
;
163 #endif /* defined (CTL_KERN) && defined (KERN_BOOTTIME) */
168 if (stat (BOOT_TIME_FILE
, &st
) == 0)
170 boot_time
= st
.st_mtime
;
175 #if defined (BOOT_TIME)
177 /* The utmp routines maintain static state.
178 Don't touch that state unless we are initialized,
179 since it might not survive dumping. */
182 #endif /* not CANNOT_DUMP */
184 /* Try to get boot time from utmp before wtmp,
185 since utmp is typically much smaller than wtmp.
186 Passing a null pointer causes get_boot_time_1
187 to inspect the default file, namely utmp. */
188 get_boot_time_1 (0, 0);
192 /* Try to get boot time from the current wtmp file. */
193 get_boot_time_1 (WTMP_FILE
, 1);
195 /* If we did not find a boot time in wtmp, look at wtmp, and so on. */
196 for (counter
= 0; counter
< 20 && ! boot_time
; counter
++)
198 char cmd_string
[sizeof WTMP_FILE
".19.gz"];
199 Lisp_Object tempname
, filename
;
200 bool delete_flag
= 0;
204 tempname
= make_formatted_string
205 (cmd_string
, "%s.%d", WTMP_FILE
, counter
);
206 if (! NILP (Ffile_exists_p (tempname
)))
210 tempname
= make_formatted_string (cmd_string
, "%s.%d.gz",
212 if (! NILP (Ffile_exists_p (tempname
)))
216 /* The utmp functions on mescaline.gnu.org accept only
217 file names up to 8 characters long. Choose a 2
218 character long prefix, and call make_temp_file with
219 second arg non-zero, so that it will add not more
220 than 6 characters to the prefix. */
221 filename
= Fexpand_file_name (build_string ("wt"),
222 Vtemporary_file_directory
);
223 filename
= make_temp_name (filename
, 1);
224 args
[0] = build_string ("gzip");
226 args
[2] = list2 (QCfile
, filename
);
228 args
[4] = build_string ("-cd");
230 Fcall_process (6, args
);
235 if (! NILP (filename
))
237 get_boot_time_1 (SSDATA (filename
), 1);
239 unlink (SSDATA (filename
));
250 /* Try to get the boot time from wtmp file FILENAME.
251 This succeeds if that file contains a reboot record.
253 If FILENAME is zero, use the same file as before;
254 if no FILENAME has ever been specified, this is the utmp file.
255 Use the newest reboot record if NEWEST,
256 the first reboot record otherwise.
257 Ignore all reboot records on or before BOOT_TIME.
258 Success is indicated by setting BOOT_TIME to a larger value. */
261 get_boot_time_1 (const char *filename
, bool newest
)
263 struct utmp ut
, *utp
;
267 /* On some versions of IRIX, opening a nonexistent file name
268 is likely to crash in the utmp routines. */
269 if (faccessat (AT_FDCWD
, filename
, R_OK
, AT_EACCESS
) != 0)
279 /* Find the next reboot record. */
280 ut
.ut_type
= BOOT_TIME
;
284 /* Compare reboot times and use the newest one. */
285 if (utp
->ut_time
> boot_time
)
287 boot_time
= utp
->ut_time
;
291 /* Advance on element in the file
292 so that getutid won't repeat the same one. */
299 #endif /* BOOT_TIME */
301 /* An arbitrary limit on lock contents length. 8 K should be plenty
302 big enough in practice. */
303 enum { MAX_LFINFO
= 8 * 1024 };
305 /* Here is the structure that stores information about a lock. */
309 /* Location of '@', '.', ':' in USER. If there's no colon, COLON
310 points to the end of USER. */
311 char *at
, *dot
, *colon
;
313 /* Lock file contents USER@HOST.PID with an optional :BOOT_TIME
314 appended. This memory is used as a lock file contents buffer, so
315 it needs room for MAX_LFINFO + 1 bytes. A string " (pid NNNN)"
316 may be appended to the USER@HOST while generating a diagnostic,
317 so make room for its extra bytes (as opposed to ".NNNN") too. */
318 char user
[MAX_LFINFO
+ 1 + sizeof " (pid )" - sizeof "."];
321 /* Write the name of the lock file for FNAME into LOCKNAME. Length
322 will be that of FNAME plus two more for the leading ".#", plus one
324 #define MAKE_LOCK_NAME(lockname, fname) \
325 (lockname = SAFE_ALLOCA (SBYTES (fname) + 2 + 1), \
326 fill_in_lock_file_name (lockname, fname))
329 fill_in_lock_file_name (char *lockfile
, Lisp_Object fn
)
331 char *last_slash
= memrchr (SSDATA (fn
), '/', SBYTES (fn
));
332 char *base
= last_slash
+ 1;
333 ptrdiff_t dirlen
= base
- SSDATA (fn
);
334 memcpy (lockfile
, SSDATA (fn
), dirlen
);
335 lockfile
[dirlen
] = '.';
336 lockfile
[dirlen
+ 1] = '#';
337 strcpy (lockfile
+ dirlen
+ 2, base
);
340 /* For some reason Linux kernels return EPERM on file systems that do
341 not support hard or symbolic links. This symbol documents the quirk.
342 There is no way to tell whether a symlink call fails due to
343 permissions issues or because links are not supported, but luckily
344 the lock file code should work either way. */
345 enum { LINKS_MIGHT_NOT_WORK
= EPERM
};
347 /* Rename OLD to NEW. If FORCE, replace any existing NEW.
348 It is OK if there are temporarily two hard links to OLD.
349 Return 0 if successful, -1 (setting errno) otherwise. */
351 rename_lock_file (char const *old
, char const *new, bool force
)
354 return sys_rename_replace (old
, new, force
);
360 if (link (old
, new) == 0)
361 return unlink (old
) == 0 || errno
== ENOENT
? 0 : -1;
362 if (errno
!= ENOSYS
&& errno
!= LINKS_MIGHT_NOT_WORK
)
365 /* 'link' does not work on this file system. This can occur on
366 a GNU/Linux host mounting a FAT32 file system. Fall back on
367 'rename' after checking that NEW does not exist. There is a
368 potential race condition since some other process may create
369 NEW immediately after the existence check, but it's the best
370 we can portably do here. */
371 if (lstat (new, &st
) == 0 || errno
== EOVERFLOW
)
380 return rename (old
, new);
384 /* Create the lock file LFNAME with contents LOCK_INFO_STR. Return 0 if
385 successful, an errno value on failure. If FORCE, remove any
386 existing LFNAME if necessary. */
389 create_lock_file (char *lfname
, char *lock_info_str
, bool force
)
392 /* Symlinks are supported only by later versions of Windows, and
393 creating them is a privileged operation that often triggers
394 User Account Control elevation prompts. Avoid the problem by
395 pretending that 'symlink' does not work. */
398 int err
= symlink (lock_info_str
, lfname
) == 0 ? 0 : errno
;
401 if (err
== EEXIST
&& force
)
404 err
= symlink (lock_info_str
, lfname
) == 0 ? 0 : errno
;
407 if (err
== ENOSYS
|| err
== LINKS_MIGHT_NOT_WORK
|| err
== ENAMETOOLONG
)
409 static char const nonce_base
[] = ".#-emacsXXXXXX";
410 char *last_slash
= strrchr (lfname
, '/');
411 ptrdiff_t lfdirlen
= last_slash
+ 1 - lfname
;
413 char *nonce
= SAFE_ALLOCA (lfdirlen
+ sizeof nonce_base
);
415 memcpy (nonce
, lfname
, lfdirlen
);
416 strcpy (nonce
+ lfdirlen
, nonce_base
);
418 fd
= mkostemp (nonce
, O_BINARY
| O_CLOEXEC
);
423 ptrdiff_t lock_info_len
;
425 fcntl (fd
, F_SETFD
, FD_CLOEXEC
);
426 lock_info_len
= strlen (lock_info_str
);
428 /* Use 'write', not 'emacs_write', as garbage collection
429 might signal an error, which would leak FD. */
430 if (write (fd
, lock_info_str
, lock_info_len
) != lock_info_len
431 || fchmod (fd
, S_IRUSR
| S_IRGRP
| S_IROTH
) != 0)
433 /* There is no need to call fsync here, as the contents of
434 the lock file need not survive system crashes. */
435 if (emacs_close (fd
) != 0)
437 if (!err
&& rename_lock_file (nonce
, lfname
, force
) != 0)
449 /* Lock the lock file named LFNAME.
450 If FORCE, do so even if it is already locked.
451 Return 0 if successful, an error number on failure. */
454 lock_file_1 (char *lfname
, bool force
)
456 /* Call this first because it can GC. */
457 printmax_t boot
= get_boot_time ();
459 Lisp_Object luser_name
= Fuser_login_name (Qnil
);
460 char const *user_name
= STRINGP (luser_name
) ? SSDATA (luser_name
) : "";
461 Lisp_Object lhost_name
= Fsystem_name ();
462 char const *host_name
= STRINGP (lhost_name
) ? SSDATA (lhost_name
) : "";
463 char lock_info_str
[MAX_LFINFO
+ 1];
464 printmax_t pid
= getpid ();
468 if (sizeof lock_info_str
469 <= snprintf (lock_info_str
, sizeof lock_info_str
,
471 user_name
, host_name
, pid
, boot
))
474 else if (sizeof lock_info_str
475 <= snprintf (lock_info_str
, sizeof lock_info_str
,
477 user_name
, host_name
, pid
))
480 return create_lock_file (lfname
, lock_info_str
, force
);
483 /* Return true if times A and B are no more than one second apart. */
486 within_one_second (time_t a
, time_t b
)
488 return (a
- b
>= -1 && a
- b
<= 1);
491 /* On systems lacking ELOOP, test for an errno value that shouldn't occur. */
496 /* Read the data for the lock file LFNAME into LFINFO. Read at most
497 MAX_LFINFO + 1 bytes. Return the number of bytes read, or -1
498 (setting errno) on error. */
501 read_lock_data (char *lfname
, char lfinfo
[MAX_LFINFO
+ 1])
505 while ((nbytes
= readlinkat (AT_FDCWD
, lfname
, lfinfo
, MAX_LFINFO
+ 1)) < 0
508 int fd
= emacs_open (lfname
, O_RDONLY
| O_BINARY
| O_NOFOLLOW
, 0);
511 /* Use read, not emacs_read, since FD isn't unwind-protected. */
512 ptrdiff_t read_bytes
= read (fd
, lfinfo
, MAX_LFINFO
+ 1);
513 int read_errno
= errno
;
514 if (emacs_close (fd
) != 0)
523 /* readlinkat saw a non-symlink, but emacs_open saw a symlink.
524 The former must have been removed and replaced by the latter.
532 /* Return 0 if nobody owns the lock file LFNAME or the lock is obsolete,
533 1 if another process owns it (and set OWNER (if non-null) to info),
534 2 if the current process owns it,
535 or -1 if something is wrong with the locking mechanism. */
538 current_lock_owner (lock_info_type
*owner
, char *lfname
)
541 lock_info_type local_owner
;
543 intmax_t pid
, boot_time
;
544 char *at
, *dot
, *lfinfo_end
;
546 /* Even if the caller doesn't want the owner info, we still have to
547 read it to determine return value. */
549 owner
= &local_owner
;
551 /* If nonexistent lock file, all is well; otherwise, got strange error. */
552 lfinfolen
= read_lock_data (lfname
, owner
->user
);
554 return errno
== ENOENT
? 0 : -1;
555 if (MAX_LFINFO
< lfinfolen
)
557 owner
->user
[lfinfolen
] = 0;
559 /* Parse USER@HOST.PID:BOOT_TIME. If can't parse, return -1. */
560 /* The USER is everything before the last @. */
561 owner
->at
= at
= memrchr (owner
->user
, '@', lfinfolen
);
564 owner
->dot
= dot
= strrchr (at
, '.');
568 /* The PID is everything from the last `.' to the `:'. */
569 if (! c_isdigit (dot
[1]))
572 pid
= strtoimax (dot
+ 1, &owner
->colon
, 10);
576 /* After the `:', if there is one, comes the boot time. */
577 switch (owner
->colon
[0])
581 lfinfo_end
= owner
->colon
;
585 if (! c_isdigit (owner
->colon
[1]))
587 boot_time
= strtoimax (owner
->colon
+ 1, &lfinfo_end
, 10);
593 if (lfinfo_end
!= owner
->user
+ lfinfolen
)
596 /* On current host? */
597 if (STRINGP (Vsystem_name
)
598 && dot
- (at
+ 1) == SBYTES (Vsystem_name
)
599 && memcmp (at
+ 1, SSDATA (Vsystem_name
), SBYTES (Vsystem_name
)) == 0)
601 if (pid
== getpid ())
602 ret
= 2; /* We own it. */
603 else if (0 < pid
&& pid
<= TYPE_MAXIMUM (pid_t
)
604 && (kill (pid
, 0) >= 0 || errno
== EPERM
)
606 || (boot_time
<= TYPE_MAXIMUM (time_t)
607 && within_one_second (boot_time
, get_boot_time ()))))
608 ret
= 1; /* An existing process on this machine owns it. */
609 /* The owner process is dead or has a strange pid, so try to
612 return unlink (lfname
);
615 { /* If we wanted to support the check for stale locks on remote machines,
616 here's where we'd do it. */
624 /* Lock the lock named LFNAME if possible.
625 Return 0 in that case.
626 Return positive if some other process owns the lock, and info about
627 that process in CLASHER.
628 Return -1 if cannot lock for any other reason. */
631 lock_if_free (lock_info_type
*clasher
, char *lfname
)
634 while ((err
= lock_file_1 (lfname
, 0)) == EEXIST
)
636 switch (current_lock_owner (clasher
, lfname
))
639 return 0; /* We ourselves locked it. */
641 return 1; /* Someone else has it. */
643 return -1; /* current_lock_owner returned strange error. */
646 /* We deleted a stale lock; try again to lock the file. */
652 /* lock_file locks file FN,
653 meaning it serves notice on the world that you intend to edit that file.
654 This should be done only when about to modify a file-visiting
655 buffer previously unmodified.
656 Do not (normally) call this for a buffer already modified,
657 as either the file is already locked, or the user has already
658 decided to go ahead without locking.
660 When this returns, either the lock is locked for us,
661 or lock creation failed,
662 or the user has said to go ahead without locking.
664 If the file is locked by someone else, this calls
665 ask-user-about-lock (a Lisp function) with two arguments,
666 the file name and info about the user who did the locking.
667 This function can signal an error, or return t meaning
668 take away the lock, or return nil meaning ignore the lock. */
671 lock_file (Lisp_Object fn
)
673 Lisp_Object orig_fn
, encoded_fn
;
675 lock_info_type lock_info
;
679 /* Don't do locking if the user has opted out. */
680 if (! create_lockfiles
)
683 /* Don't do locking while dumping Emacs.
684 Uncompressing wtmp files uses call-process, which does not work
685 in an uninitialized Emacs. */
686 if (! NILP (Vpurify_flag
))
691 fn
= Fexpand_file_name (fn
, Qnil
);
693 /* Ensure we have only '/' separators, to avoid problems with
694 looking (inside fill_in_lock_file_name) for backslashes in file
695 names encoded by some DBCS codepage. */
696 dostounix_filename (SSDATA (fn
));
698 encoded_fn
= ENCODE_FILE (fn
);
700 /* Create the name of the lock-file for file fn */
701 MAKE_LOCK_NAME (lfname
, encoded_fn
);
703 /* See if this file is visited and has changed on disk since it was
706 register Lisp_Object subject_buf
;
708 subject_buf
= get_truename_buffer (orig_fn
);
710 if (!NILP (subject_buf
)
711 && NILP (Fverify_visited_file_modtime (subject_buf
))
712 && !NILP (Ffile_exists_p (fn
)))
713 call1 (intern ("ask-user-about-supersession-threat"), fn
);
717 /* Try to lock the lock. */
718 if (0 < lock_if_free (&lock_info
, lfname
))
720 /* Someone else has the lock. Consider breaking it. */
722 char *dot
= lock_info
.dot
;
723 ptrdiff_t pidlen
= lock_info
.colon
- (dot
+ 1);
724 static char const replacement
[] = " (pid ";
725 int replacementlen
= sizeof replacement
- 1;
726 memmove (dot
+ replacementlen
, dot
+ 1, pidlen
);
727 strcpy (dot
+ replacementlen
+ pidlen
, ")");
728 memcpy (dot
, replacement
, replacementlen
);
729 attack
= call2 (intern ("ask-user-about-lock"), fn
,
730 build_string (lock_info
.user
));
731 /* Take the lock if the user said so. */
733 lock_file_1 (lfname
, 1);
741 unlock_file (Lisp_Object fn
)
746 fn
= Fexpand_file_name (fn
, Qnil
);
747 fn
= ENCODE_FILE (fn
);
749 MAKE_LOCK_NAME (lfname
, fn
);
751 if (current_lock_owner (0, lfname
) == 2)
758 unlock_all_files (void)
760 register Lisp_Object tail
, buf
;
761 register struct buffer
*b
;
763 FOR_EACH_LIVE_BUFFER (tail
, buf
)
766 if (STRINGP (BVAR (b
, file_truename
))
767 && BUF_SAVE_MODIFF (b
) < BUF_MODIFF (b
))
768 unlock_file (BVAR (b
, file_truename
));
772 DEFUN ("lock-buffer", Flock_buffer
, Slock_buffer
,
774 doc
: /* Lock FILE, if current buffer is modified.
775 FILE defaults to current buffer's visited file,
776 or else nothing is done if current buffer isn't visiting a file. */)
780 file
= BVAR (current_buffer
, file_truename
);
783 if (SAVE_MODIFF
< MODIFF
789 DEFUN ("unlock-buffer", Funlock_buffer
, Sunlock_buffer
,
791 doc
: /* Unlock the file visited in the current buffer.
792 If the buffer is not modified, this does nothing because the file
793 should not be locked in that case. */)
796 if (SAVE_MODIFF
< MODIFF
797 && STRINGP (BVAR (current_buffer
, file_truename
)))
798 unlock_file (BVAR (current_buffer
, file_truename
));
802 /* Unlock the file visited in buffer BUFFER. */
805 unlock_buffer (struct buffer
*buffer
)
807 if (BUF_SAVE_MODIFF (buffer
) < BUF_MODIFF (buffer
)
808 && STRINGP (BVAR (buffer
, file_truename
)))
809 unlock_file (BVAR (buffer
, file_truename
));
812 DEFUN ("file-locked-p", Ffile_locked_p
, Sfile_locked_p
, 1, 1, 0,
813 doc
: /* Return a value indicating whether FILENAME is locked.
814 The value is nil if the FILENAME is not locked,
815 t if it is locked by you, else a string saying which user has locked it. */)
816 (Lisp_Object filename
)
821 lock_info_type locker
;
824 filename
= Fexpand_file_name (filename
, Qnil
);
826 MAKE_LOCK_NAME (lfname
, filename
);
828 owner
= current_lock_owner (&locker
, lfname
);
834 ret
= make_string (locker
.user
, locker
.at
- locker
.user
);
840 #endif /* CLASH_DETECTION */
843 syms_of_filelock (void)
845 DEFVAR_LISP ("temporary-file-directory", Vtemporary_file_directory
,
846 doc
: /* The directory for writing temporary files. */);
847 Vtemporary_file_directory
= Qnil
;
849 DEFVAR_BOOL ("create-lockfiles", create_lockfiles
,
850 doc
: /* Non-nil means use lockfiles to avoid editing collisions. */);
851 create_lockfiles
= 1;
853 #ifdef CLASH_DETECTION
854 defsubr (&Sunlock_buffer
);
855 defsubr (&Slock_buffer
);
856 defsubr (&Sfile_locked_p
);