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fix(kit): harden writeTypes against concurrent readers - #36724
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- Line 877: Update the cleanup around fsp.rm(tempPath) to report any removal
failure through the existing logging mechanism, while ensuring it does not
replace or suppress the original fsp.rename error that must be rethrown.
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The write helpers now use a new atomic-write function. It creates a uniquely named temporary file in the target directory and renames it to the destination. A new concurrency test repeatedly calls writeTypes while a worker reads and parses tsconfig.json.
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The atomic writes protect concurrent readers. Merge risk is low, with owner awareness needed for restricted-directory compatibility and temporary files left behind when cleanup fails.
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Synchronise the worker before the write loop and assert overlap.
The worker starts asynchronously, and the test does not wait for it before running the 50 writeTypes(nuxt) calls. The reads > 0 assertion runs only after all writes finish. Therefore, every read can occur after the writes and the test can still pass with invalid = 0.
Add a readiness handshake and assert that at least one read occurs while the write loop is active.
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Update the worker and writeTypes test flow so the worker signals readiness
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- Line 855: In writeTypes, add a bounded retry around fsp.rename for transient
Windows rename errors such as EPERM, and leave the existing destination
untouched during retries so readers never see it disappear.
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- Line 576: Update the worker and writeTypes test flow so the worker signals
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- Line 604: Update the ENOSPC test around writeTypes so it waits for all
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Keep the pre-existing overwrite race in mind for writeIfMissing.
writeIfMissing still checks existsSync before writing. A file created between that check and the rename can be replaced. The same overwrite was possible before this change, because the original code used fsp.writeFile(path, contents), which truncates an existing file. The staged write only lengthens the window by the temporary-file write time. Consider an exclusive link or create step if this mode must never replace a concurrently created file.
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Review comment at @packages/kit/src/template.ts at line 853:
Review the `writeIfMissing` path around `writeFileAtomic` and establish whether
it must never replace a file created concurrently. If so, use an exclusive
create or link operation so the staged write cannot overwrite that file;
otherwise preserve the existing overwrite behaviour.
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On the writeIfMissing follow-up: this check-then-write race is not new (the old fsp.writeFile also overwrote a file created between the check and the write), and only Nuxt writes these files. I left it as is so the PR stays scoped to readers seeing partial files.
yes we did
we are building a backend framework and Nuxt is one of the frontend ui frameworks we support
and we faced this issue so we proposed this fix
A Nuxt app's tsconfig.json is just { "extends": "./.nuxt/tsconfig.json" }.
Every time Holo bundles the project's code, its bundler (esbuild) follows that extends and reads .nuxt/tsconfig.json.
Nuxt rewrites .nuxt/tsconfig.json during nuxt prepare (or a dev reload) using a plain fs.writeFile. That empties the file first and then writes the new contents.
If Holo read the file in that short gap, it got an empty or half-written file, and parsing the JSON failed.
It only happened when Nuxt's output actually changed, so it was rare. In our stress reproduction it hit about 5–8 runs out of every ~1,550 before the fix. That's rare enough to look like a flaky test, but it's a real crash.
When Nuxt prepares its types, our Nuxt adapter saves its own copy of the tsconfig. It writes that copy safely: first to a temporary file, then swapped into place in one step.
The bundler reads that copy instead of the original file.
After that, the same stress tests showed 0 failures in 1,500–1,900 runs per scenario.
Why we opened this PR
Our workaround protects only Holo. Nuxt still writes these files the unsafe way, so anything else that reads them while Nuxt rewrites them can see a broken file: editors, tsc --watch, other bundlers, and other Nuxt modules. this PR fixes this in Nuxt's writeTypes with the same write-then-swap approach, so readers always see either the old file or the new one, never a partial one.
What it means for us: nothing breaks while we wait. Once the fix ships in a Nuxt release and we raise our minimum Nuxt version to that release, we could consider removing the tsconfig copy from Holo.
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writeTypesoverwrites generatedtsconfigand declaration files in place.A concurrent reader can see an empty or partially written file.
This change writes to a temporary file in the same directory, then renames it into place so readers see the complete file.