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* [PATCH] sstate.bbclass: Remove possibility of file corruption and make package writing atomic
@ 2012-03-22 22:47 Richard Purdie
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From: Richard Purdie @ 2012-03-22 22:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: openembedded-core; +Cc: Polk, Jeffrey

There is currently a race window when creating sstate packages since we don't
atomically write the files to SSTATE_DIR. This change ensures we do so by writing
to a temporary file and then doing an atomic move.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
---
diff --git a/meta/classes/sstate.bbclass b/meta/classes/sstate.bbclass
index 1570654..20e66e2 100644
--- a/meta/classes/sstate.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/sstate.bbclass
@@ -455,12 +455,14 @@ python sstate_task_postfunc () {
 #
 sstate_create_package () {
 	cd ${SSTATE_BUILDDIR}
+	TFILE=`mktemp ${SSTATE_PKG}.XXXXXXXX`
 	# Need to handle empty directories
 	if [ "$(ls -A)" ]; then
-		tar -czf ${SSTATE_PKG} *
+		tar -czf $TFILE *
 	else
-		tar -cz --file=${SSTATE_PKG} --files-from=/dev/null
+		tar -cz --file=$TFILE --files-from=/dev/null
 	fi
+	mv $TFILE ${SSTATE_PKG}
 
 	cd ${WORKDIR}
 	rm -rf ${SSTATE_BUILDDIR}





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