#include #include "pathlocks.hh" /* This enables us to check whether are not already holding a lock on a file ourselves. POSIX locks (fcntl) suck in this respect: if we close a descriptor, the previous lock will be closed as well. And there is no way to query whether we already have a lock (F_GETLK only works on locks held by other processes). */ static StringSet lockedPaths; /* !!! not thread-safe */ PathLocks::PathLocks(const Strings & _paths) { /* Note that `fds' is built incrementally so that the destructor will only release those locks that we have already acquired. */ /* Sort the paths. This assures that locks are always acquired in the same order, thus preventing deadlocks. */ Strings paths(_paths); paths.sort(); /* Acquire the lock for each path. */ for (Strings::iterator i = paths.begin(); i != paths.end(); i++) { string path = *i; string lockPath = path + ".lock"; debug(format("locking path `%1%'") % path); if (lockedPaths.find(lockPath) != lockedPaths.end()) { debug(format("already holding lock on `%1%'") % lockPath); continue; } /* Open/create the lock file. */ int fd = open(lockPath.c_str(), O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, 0666); if (fd == -1) throw SysError(format("opening lock file `%1%'") % lockPath); fds.push_back(fd); this->paths.push_back(lockPath); /* Lock it. */ struct flock lock; lock.l_type = F_WRLCK; /* exclusive lock */ lock.l_whence = SEEK_SET; lock.l_start = 0; lock.l_len = 0; /* entire file */ while (fcntl(fd, F_SETLKW, &lock) == -1) if (errno != EINTR) throw SysError(format("acquiring lock on `%1%'") % lockPath); lockedPaths.insert(lockPath); } } PathLocks::~PathLocks() { for (list::iterator i = fds.begin(); i != fds.end(); i++) close(*i); for (Strings::iterator i = paths.begin(); i != paths.end(); i++) lockedPaths.erase(*i); }