package replacefile import ( "fmt" "io/ioutil" "os" "path/filepath" ) // AtomicWriteFile uses a temporary file along with this package's AtomicRename // function in order to provide a replacement for ioutil.WriteFile that // writes the given file into place as atomically as the underlying operating // system can support. // // The sense of "atomic" meant by this function is that the file at the // given filename will either contain the entirety of the previous contents // or the entirety of the given data array if opened and read at any point // during the execution of the function. // // On some platforms attempting to overwrite a file that has at least one // open filehandle will produce an error. On other platforms, the overwriting // will succeed but existing open handles will still refer to the old file, // even though its directory entry is no longer present. // // Although AtomicWriteFile tries its best to avoid leaving behind its // temporary file on error, some particularly messy error cases may result // in a leftover temporary file. func AtomicWriteFile(filename string, data []byte, perm os.FileMode) error { dir, file := filepath.Split(filename) if dir == "" { // If the file is in the current working directory then dir will // end up being "", but that's not right here because TempFile // treats an empty dir as meaning "use the TMPDIR environment variable". dir = "." } f, err := ioutil.TempFile(dir, file) // alongside target file and with a similar name if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("cannot create temporary file to update %s: %s", filename, err) } tmpName := f.Name() moved := false defer func(f *os.File, name string) { // Remove the temporary file if it hasn't been moved yet. We're // ignoring errors here because there's nothing we can do about // them anyway. if !moved { os.Remove(name) } }(f, tmpName) // We'll try to apply the requested permissions. This may // not be effective on all platforms, but should at least work on // Unix-like targets and should be harmless elsewhere. if err := os.Chmod(tmpName, perm); err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("cannot set mode for temporary file %s: %s", tmpName, err) } // Write the credentials to the temporary file, then immediately close // it, whether or not the write succeeds. Note that closing the file here // is required because on Windows we can't move a file while it's open. _, err = f.Write(data) f.Close() if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("cannot write to temporary file %s: %s", tmpName, err) } // Temporary file now replaces the original file, as atomically as // possible. (At the very least, we should not end up with a file // containing only a partial JSON object.) err = AtomicRename(tmpName, filename) if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("failed to replace %s with temporary file %s: %s", filename, tmpName, err) } moved = true return nil }