/* *------------------------------------------------------------------------- * flock.c -- * * File opening with file locks (used by utils/path.c and database/DBio.c) * * Original implementation by Michael Godfrey, Stanford University. * Implementation using "lockf" by Stefan Jones, MultiGiG, Inc., * September 2005 (magic 7.3.102_lockf, finally corrected and implemented * as magic 7.3.119) *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ #ifdef FILE_LOCKS #include #include #include "utils/magic.h" #include "utils/hash.h" #include "utils/geometry.h" #include "tiles/tile.h" #include "database/database.h" #include "windows/windows.h" #include "utils/malloc.h" /* *------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Below are the service routines for file locking. * * The original file locking mechanism (Michael Godfrey) used common files. * However, this has the drawback of requiring extraneous directories, and * orphaned lock files will remain after a program crash. * * The lockf solution (Stefan Jones) has the drawback that in order to * hold a lock, the file descriptor must be left open. This leaves the * possibility that we may exceed the maximum number of file descriptors * per process. Because this solution is the simplest, it is implemented * here. * * For future reference, the best file locking system (?) would use * signaling via fcntl(F_NOTIFY). The locking mechanism goes like this: * * 1. process X requests an attributes notification on each directory that * it reads a file from. * * 2. process X reads file A for editing. * * 3. process Y requests an attributes notification on each directory that * it reads a file from. * * 4. process Y reads file A, thus changing its access time attribute. * process Y sets the cell as read/write. * * 5. process X receives a signal. It checks the cell that is being * accessed. If the cell has been modified, it sets a lock on * file A. Opening file A to set the lock modifies its access time. * If the cell has not been modified, it sets the cell to read-only. * * 6. process Y receives a signal. It checks the cell that is being * accessed. If the cell has not yet been modified, it sets the * cell to read-only. If the cell has been modified (less likely, * but possible if process X was doing something time-consuming and * uninterruptable and didn't process the signal for a while), then * process Y attempts to set a lock. If the lock fails, then a * warning is issued. * * It is possible for either X or Y to win the race if both processes * modified the file right after opening. However, this rare condition * is unlikely to be a serious problem, and prevents a process from * having to hold open many file descriptors. * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ #include #include #include /* *------------------------------------------------------------------------- * flock_open -- * * Open a file with "lockf" file locking method. * * Results -- * Pointer to FILE that was opened, or NULL if an error occurred. * * Side effects -- * System I/O *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ FILE *flock_open(filename, mode, is_locked) char *filename; char *mode; bool *is_locked; { FILE *f = NULL, *tmp; struct flock fl; if (is_locked) *is_locked = FALSE; /* If is_locked is NULL, then a lock is not requested, so just do */ /* a normal fopen() and return. */ if (is_locked == NULL) return fopen(filename, mode); /* Diagnostic */ /* TxPrintf("Opening file <%s>\n", filename); */ tmp = fopen(filename, "r+"); if (tmp == NULL) { if (is_locked) *is_locked = TRUE; f = fopen(filename, "r"); goto done; } fl.l_len = 0; fl.l_start = 0; fl.l_whence = SEEK_SET; fl.l_type = F_WRLCK; fl.l_pid = getpid(); if (fcntl(fileno(tmp), F_GETLK, &fl)) { perror(filename); f = fopen(filename, mode); goto done; } fclose(tmp); if (fl.l_type == F_UNLCK) { fl.l_len = 0; fl.l_start = 0; fl.l_whence = SEEK_SET; fl.l_type = F_WRLCK; fl.l_pid = getpid(); f = fopen(filename, "r+"); if (fcntl(fileno(f), F_SETLK, &fl)) { perror(filename); } else { /* Diagnostic */ /* TxPrintf("Obtained lock on file <%s> (fd=%d)\n", filename, fileno(f)); */ } } else { /* Don't know why PID is not set by F_GETLK as advertised? */ if (fl.l_pid == 0) TxPrintf("File <%s> is already locked by another process." " Opening read-only.\n", filename); else TxPrintf("File <%s> is already locked by pid %d. Opening read-only.\n", filename, (int)fl.l_pid); if (is_locked) *is_locked = TRUE; f = fopen(filename, "r"); } done: return f; } #endif /* FILE_LOCKS */