github.com/kevinklinger/open_terraform@v1.3.6/noninternal/replacefile/writefile.go (about)

     1  package replacefile
     2  
     3  import (
     4  	"fmt"
     5  	"io/ioutil"
     6  	"os"
     7  	"path/filepath"
     8  )
     9  
    10  // AtomicWriteFile uses a temporary file along with this package's AtomicRename
    11  // function in order to provide a replacement for ioutil.WriteFile that
    12  // writes the given file into place as atomically as the underlying operating
    13  // system can support.
    14  //
    15  // The sense of "atomic" meant by this function is that the file at the
    16  // given filename will either contain the entirety of the previous contents
    17  // or the entirety of the given data array if opened and read at any point
    18  // during the execution of the function.
    19  //
    20  // On some platforms attempting to overwrite a file that has at least one
    21  // open filehandle will produce an error. On other platforms, the overwriting
    22  // will succeed but existing open handles will still refer to the old file,
    23  // even though its directory entry is no longer present.
    24  //
    25  // Although AtomicWriteFile tries its best to avoid leaving behind its
    26  // temporary file on error, some particularly messy error cases may result
    27  // in a leftover temporary file.
    28  func AtomicWriteFile(filename string, data []byte, perm os.FileMode) error {
    29  	dir, file := filepath.Split(filename)
    30  	if dir == "" {
    31  		// If the file is in the current working directory then dir will
    32  		// end up being "", but that's not right here because TempFile
    33  		// treats an empty dir as meaning "use the TMPDIR environment variable".
    34  		dir = "."
    35  	}
    36  	f, err := ioutil.TempFile(dir, file) // alongside target file and with a similar name
    37  	if err != nil {
    38  		return fmt.Errorf("cannot create temporary file to update %s: %s", filename, err)
    39  	}
    40  	tmpName := f.Name()
    41  	moved := false
    42  	defer func(f *os.File, name string) {
    43  		// Remove the temporary file if it hasn't been moved yet. We're
    44  		// ignoring errors here because there's nothing we can do about
    45  		// them anyway.
    46  		if !moved {
    47  			os.Remove(name)
    48  		}
    49  	}(f, tmpName)
    50  
    51  	// We'll try to apply the requested permissions. This may
    52  	// not be effective on all platforms, but should at least work on
    53  	// Unix-like targets and should be harmless elsewhere.
    54  	if err := os.Chmod(tmpName, perm); err != nil {
    55  		return fmt.Errorf("cannot set mode for temporary file %s: %s", tmpName, err)
    56  	}
    57  
    58  	// Write the credentials to the temporary file, then immediately close
    59  	// it, whether or not the write succeeds. Note that closing the file here
    60  	// is required because on Windows we can't move a file while it's open.
    61  	_, err = f.Write(data)
    62  	f.Close()
    63  	if err != nil {
    64  		return fmt.Errorf("cannot write to temporary file %s: %s", tmpName, err)
    65  	}
    66  
    67  	// Temporary file now replaces the original file, as atomically as
    68  	// possible. (At the very least, we should not end up with a file
    69  	// containing only a partial JSON object.)
    70  	err = AtomicRename(tmpName, filename)
    71  	if err != nil {
    72  		return fmt.Errorf("failed to replace %s with temporary file %s: %s", filename, tmpName, err)
    73  	}
    74  
    75  	moved = true
    76  	return nil
    77  }