fix(settings): preserve concurrent updates - #2137
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Serialize the complete settings read-merge-write transaction under a physical-target lock with a bounded synchronous contention wait. Read the merge base fresh after ownership, preserve logical symlinks during publication, and route direct settings-sync replacements through the same lock.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughSettings updates now use synchronous transactions with physical-target locking and atomic replacement. Local updates preserve merge semantics and cache behavior. Remote synchronization uses transactional settings writes, separate write counters, and memory-cache invalidation. Tests cover contention, timeouts, symlinks, failures, and concurrent writers. ChangesSettings transaction flow
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change improves concurrent settings preservation, but an existing array-valued settings file can still cause updates to report success while silently dropping the requested data; contention can also block background synchronization for up to two seconds per file, with misleading failure messages. Merge should wait for these bounded correctness and operational issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted. Possibly related PRs
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517-523: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winFix the catch-block error prefix. It now misattributes lock and write failures.
The
tryblock covers lock acquisition, merge, and the file write, not only the raw read. A lock timeout now surfaces to the user asFailed to read raw settings from <path>: Error: Timed out after 2000ms waiting for the settings file lock. The cause is interpolated, but the prefix is wrong and will misdirect bug reports.Use a neutral prefix that matches the new scope.
🩹 Proposed fix for the error prefix
} catch (e) { const error = new Error( - `Failed to read raw settings from ${filePath}: ${e}`, + `Failed to update settings at ${filePath}: ${e}`, ) logError(error) return { error } }If an existing test asserts the old prefix, update it in the same change.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/services/settingsSync/index.ts`:
- Around line 479-491: Bound lock waits separately for background sync by
extending the transaction helper used by replaceSettingsFileSync with an
optional wait budget, then pass a smaller budget from writeSettingsFileForSync
while preserving the existing user-action timeout. Ensure timed-out writes
remain unsuccessful so the next sync retries them, and record the chosen
decision if retaining the current ceiling.
- Around line 590-593: Update the settings_sync_applied diagnostic payload in
the settings sync function to include both settingsFilesWritten and
memoryFilesWritten alongside appliedCount, while preserving the existing return
values and logging behavior.
In `@src/services/settingsSync/settings.transaction.test.ts`:
- Around line 190-191: Loosen the upper elapsed-time assertion in the lock-wait
timing test around elapsedMs, raising it toward the 2000 ms wait budget while
preserving the 500 ms lower bound and the existing timeout-detection intent.
- Around line 30-133: Extract the shared child-process harness used by
Holder/startHolder and CapturedChild/startWriter into a helper under the test
utilities, including delay, marker waiting, completion, output capture, and
SIGTERM/SIGKILL cleanup. Parameterize timeout values and preserve each caller’s
existing completion behavior, including the JSON parsing specific to
finishWriter, then update both test files to use the helper.
In `@src/test/fixtures/settingsTransactionWriter.fixture.ts`:
- Around line 8-34: Validate role against the supported values before
proceeding, and throw the existing missing-arguments error or a clear
invalid-role error for unknown roles instead of defaulting to the normal writer
path; update the role branching used by the fixture accordingly. Rename the
second argument and related references from configDir to a neutral target, while
only assigning OPENCLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR and resolving the settings directory for
roles that receive a config directory, preserving hold-path-for’s file-path
behavior.
- Around line 31-37: Update the settingsReadPath construction to resolve the
parent directory independently of whether the settings file exists: derive the
directory and basename from settingsPath, realpath the directory, then rejoin it
with the basename. Add the necessary node:path helpers to preserve matching with
production realpathed reads, including when the file is absent under a symlinked
config directory.
In `@src/utils/settings/settings.transaction.test.ts`:
- Around line 370-389: Add a focused test beside the existing filesystem-error
test that nests withSettingsFileTransactionSync on the same settingsPath,
asserts the inner transaction reports the expected timeout, and verifies the
lock file is cleaned up. Use the existing TEST_TIMEOUT_MS and
temporary-directory cleanup pattern.
In `@src/utils/settings/settingsFileTransaction.ts`:
- Around line 32-66: Update acquireSettingsLock to record diagnostic information
when lock contention exceeds the intended threshold before continuing to wait,
while preserving the existing timeout and retry behavior. In the onCompromised
handler, either abort the lock-protected operation so mutual exclusion loss
cannot be ignored, or explicitly document the deliberate log-only policy at that
handler.
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In `@src/utils/settings/settings.ts`:
- Around line 517-523: Update the catch block in the settings-loading flow to
replace the read-specific error prefix with a neutral message covering all
operations in the try block, including lock acquisition, merging, and writing.
Preserve the interpolated cause and log/return behavior, and update any test
asserting the old prefix.
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src/utils/settings/settingsFileTransaction.ts (2)
19-30: LGTM!Also applies to: 84-93
74-74: 🩺 Stability & AvailabilityNo change required. The wrapper creates missing parent directories with
recursive: trueand toleratesEEXIST.src/utils/settings/settings.ts (2)
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| function writeSettingsFileForSync( | ||
| filePath: string, | ||
| content: string, | ||
| ): boolean { | ||
| try { | ||
| replaceSettingsFileSync(filePath, content) | ||
| logForDiagnosticsNoPII('info', 'settings_sync_file_written') | ||
| return true | ||
| } catch { | ||
| logForDiagnosticsNoPII('warn', 'settings_sync_file_write_failed') | ||
| return false | ||
| } | ||
| } |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Blocking lock waits now run on the background sync path. Bound them separately.
replaceSettingsFileSync blocks the thread with Atomics.wait for up to SETTINGS_LOCK_WAIT_MS (2000 ms) per call. applyRemoteEntriesToLocal calls writeSettingsFileForSync twice, for user settings and for project settings. Under contention the background sync therefore freezes the event loop for up to 4 s. src/utils/settings/settings.transaction.test.ts lines 242-293 model a 4.5 s holder, so contention is a real scenario, not a theoretical one.
updateSettingsForSource blocks in response to a user action, which is defensible. Remote sync runs opportunistically without user intent, so the same ceiling is harder to justify.
Two options, in order of cost:
- Give the transaction helper an optional wait budget and pass a smaller value from the sync path. A timed-out entry is already handled correctly: it is not counted as applied, and the next sync retries it.
- Yield to the event loop between the two settings writes so a single stalled write does not compound.
Not a merge blocker if the maintainers accept the current ceiling, but please record the decision.
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In `@src/services/settingsSync/index.ts` around lines 479 - 491, Bound lock waits
separately for background sync by extending the transaction helper used by
replaceSettingsFileSync with an optional wait budget, then pass a smaller budget
from writeSettingsFileForSync while preserving the existing user-action timeout.
Ensure timed-out writes remain unsuccessful so the next sync retries them, and
record the chosen decision if retaining the current ceiling.
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Update
Retained the shared bounded contention policy.
Not changed
- Background settings-sync wait budget — Direct settings-sync writes intentionally retain the same two-second deadline because ordinary short contention must serialize successfully on this path too. A timeout remains bounded and the failed file is not counted as applied.
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Extract the child-process harness. It is duplicated across two new test files.
Holder, startHolder, delay, waitForHolder, finishHolder, and terminateHolder are near-identical to CapturedChild, startWriter, delay, waitForMarker, finishWriter, and terminateChild in src/utils/settings/settings.transaction.test.ts lines 30-166. The only real differences are the timeout constants and the JSON parsing in finishWriter.
The harness is subtle: exit-code and signal checks, stdout capture for failure messages, SIGTERM then SIGKILL escalation. Two copies will drift, and a fix applied to one will be missed in the other. Both files are new, so extracting now costs one small module.
Move the shared parts into a helper under src/test/ and keep the timeouts as parameters.
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Context: import { spawn, type ChildProcessByStdio } from 'node:child_process'
Note: [CWE-78] Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection').
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In `@src/services/settingsSync/settings.transaction.test.ts` around lines 30 -
133, Extract the shared child-process harness used by Holder/startHolder and
CapturedChild/startWriter into a helper under the test utilities, including
delay, marker waiting, completion, output capture, and SIGTERM/SIGKILL cleanup.
Parameterize timeout values and preserve each caller’s existing completion
behavior, including the JSON parsing specific to finishWriter, then update both
test files to use the helper.
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Update
Kept the focused test harnesses local to their suites.
Not changed
- Shared subprocess harness — The two harnesses have different completion contracts, including writer-specific JSON parsing. Extracting a generalized test utility would add scope and abstraction without changing the production concurrency guarantee.
| test('does not retry unrelated filesystem errors', async () => { | ||
| const root = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'openclaude-settings-fs-error-')) | ||
| const nonDirectory = join(root, 'not-a-directory') | ||
| writeFileSync(nonDirectory, '') | ||
| try { | ||
| const { withSettingsFileTransactionSync } = await import( | ||
| './settingsFileTransaction.js' | ||
| ) | ||
| const startedAt = performance.now() | ||
| expect(() => | ||
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win
Add coverage for a re-entrant transaction on the same target.
The suite covers cross-process contention well. It does not cover same-process re-entrancy. lockSync reports ELOCKED for the calling process too, so a nested withSettingsFileTransactionSync on the same physical target blocks for the full 2000 ms and then throws. That is a self-deadlock cliff for any future caller that wraps updateSettingsForSource inside another settings transaction.
Add one focused test next to the existing filesystem-error test that pins the current behavior. If the intended contract is instead "re-entrancy is unsupported", the test documents it.
Review tests for meaningful coverage of the changed behavior, and block when risky runtime changes lack focused regression coverage. As per path instructions.
🧪 Proposed regression test
test('a nested transaction on the same target fails fast enough to diagnose', async () => {
const root = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'openclaude-settings-reentrant-'))
const settingsPath = join(root, 'settings.json')
try {
writeFileSync(settingsPath, '{}\n')
const { withSettingsFileTransactionSync } = await import(
'./settingsFileTransaction.js'
)
expect(() =>
withSettingsFileTransactionSync(settingsPath, () =>
withSettingsFileTransactionSync(settingsPath, () => undefined),
),
).toThrow(/Timed out after 2000ms/)
expect(existsSync(`${settingsPath}.lock`)).toBe(false)
} finally {
rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true })
}
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In `@src/utils/settings/settings.transaction.test.ts` around lines 370 - 389, Add
a focused test beside the existing filesystem-error test that nests
withSettingsFileTransactionSync on the same settingsPath, asserts the inner
transaction reports the expected timeout, and verifies the lock file is cleaned
up. Use the existing TEST_TIMEOUT_MS and temporary-directory cleanup pattern.
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Update
Documented the internal helper's non-reentrant contract.
Not changed
- Same-target nested transaction test — No production caller nests this internal helper. Same-target nesting is now explicitly documented as unsupported; adding a test that deliberately waits for the full timeout would codify a hypothetical caller path rather than the cross-process contract fixed here.
UpdateAddressed verified settings-transaction review feedback while preserving the shared two-second contention contract. Addressed
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466-467: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winReject array-valued settings documents before merging.
Line 466 accepts arrays because
typeof [] === 'object'.mergeWith([], { env: { NEW: 'yes' } })storesenvas a non-index array property. JSON serialization then writes[].updateSettingsForSourcereturns success but drops the requested update.Accept only a non-array settings record here, or return a validation error for a non-object document. Add a focused regression test for an existing
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- Around line 466-467: Update the rawData validation in the settings-loading
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invalid documents. Add a focused regression test covering an existing []
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Summary
Root cause
Atomic file replacement protected readers from partial output, but it did not serialize the read and merge that preceded publication. Two processes could therefore read the same old settings document, both return success, and have the later publication erase the other process's disjoint patch.
Reproduction
The regression was reproduced on untouched upstream base
108a4134931b02985e5baa828b5d406ab392a0f8with:Both subprocess updates reported success, but the final document contained
BASEandWRITER_Awhile the disjointWRITER_Bupdate was missing. The same test passes with this change.Design decision
The implementation considered a fail-fast sync lock, broad async API conversion, and a custom owner/recovery protocol. Fail-fast does not preserve the required ordinary-contention outcome, async conversion would broaden the caller surface, and custom ownership is unnecessary for this focused race.
proper-lockfiledoes not support built-in retries through its synchronous adapter, so the selected design uses a small outer loop that retries only explicitELOCKEDcontention. It waits in 25 ms intervals with a monotonic two-second deadline; timeout returns a clear settings error, while unrelated filesystem errors propagate immediately.The helper canonicalizes the physical settings target before acquiring its sibling lock, then performs the fresh disk read, merge, atomic publication, cache invalidation, and release as one synchronous transaction. Publication targets the physical file while internal-write tracking retains the logical settings path, so live parent and direct-file symlink aliases converge on one lock without replacing the symlink.
Settings sync
Direct user and local settings-file replacements use the same physical-target transaction helper. A failed or timed-out settings replacement is not counted as applied; memory-file processing and later entries retain their existing behavior.
Scope
This PR does not change:
Supersedes #2095 with a clean implementation limited to the original settings transaction race and direct settings-sync integration.
Testing
bun test src/utils/settings/settings.transaction.test.ts— 11 passed, 0 failed.bun test src/services/settingsSync/settings.transaction.test.ts— 3 passed, 0 failed.bun run typecheck— passed.bun run typecheck:type-tests— passed; 10 focused type-test files checked.bun run check— passed.bun run security:pr-scan— passed; no suspicious additions found.git diff --check upstream/main...HEAD— passed.Process
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