tailscale/cmd/cigocacher/disk_windows.go
Will Norris 3ec5be3f51 all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it
This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in
the history of Tailscale's open source releases.

A Brief History of AUTHORS files
---

The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for
Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem
was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing
Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source
projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each
contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors
then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE
file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a
tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the
license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact.

The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the
copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then
include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The
Chromium Authors".

This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a
high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the
copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the
contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way
for the proejct maintainer to know.

Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to
keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to
it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors.
They are also clear that:

> Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the
> project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership.

It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors
that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was
entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even
the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright
holders.

In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists
Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes
confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header
in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so
it's ambiguous what that means.

Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever
they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We
also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which
provides some additional certification of their right to make the
contribution.

The source file changes were purely mechanical with:

    git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g'

Updates #cleanup

Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00

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// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
package main
import (
"crypto/sha256"
"errors"
"fmt"
"io"
"os"
)
// The functions in this file are based on go's own cache in
// cmd/go/internal/cache/cache.go, particularly putIndexEntry and copyFile.
// writeActionFile writes the indexEntry metadata for an ActionID to disk. It
// may be called for the same actionID concurrently from multiple processes,
// and the outputID for a specific actionID may change from time to time due
// to non-deterministic builds. It makes a best-effort to delete the file if
// anything goes wrong.
func writeActionFile(dest string, b []byte) (retErr error) {
f, err := os.OpenFile(dest, os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREATE, 0o666)
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer func() {
cerr := f.Close()
if retErr != nil || cerr != nil {
retErr = errors.Join(retErr, cerr, os.Remove(dest))
}
}()
_, err = f.Write(b)
if err != nil {
return err
}
// Truncate the file only *after* writing it.
// (This should be a no-op, but truncate just in case of previous corruption.)
//
// This differs from os.WriteFile, which truncates to 0 *before* writing
// via os.O_TRUNC. Truncating only after writing ensures that a second write
// of the same content to the same file is idempotent, and does not - even
// temporarily! - undo the effect of the first write.
return f.Truncate(int64(len(b)))
}
// writeOutputFile writes content to be cached to disk. The outputID is the
// sha256 hash of the content, and each file should only be written ~once,
// assuming no sha256 hash collisions. It may be written multiple times if
// concurrent processes are both populating the same output. The file is opened
// with FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_WRITE, which means both processes can write
// the same contents concurrently without conflict.
//
// It makes a best effort to clean up if anything goes wrong, but the file may
// be left in an inconsistent state in the event of disk-related errors such as
// another process taking file locks, or power loss etc.
func writeOutputFile(dest string, r io.Reader, size int64, outputID string) (_ int64, retErr error) {
info, err := os.Stat(dest)
if err == nil && info.Size() == size {
// Already exists, check the hash.
if f, err := os.Open(dest); err == nil {
h := sha256.New()
io.Copy(h, f)
f.Close()
if fmt.Sprintf("%x", h.Sum(nil)) == outputID {
// Still drain the reader to ensure associated resources are released.
return io.Copy(io.Discard, r)
}
}
}
// Didn't successfully find the pre-existing file, write it.
mode := os.O_WRONLY | os.O_CREATE
if err == nil && info.Size() > size {
mode |= os.O_TRUNC // Should never happen, but self-heal.
}
f, err := os.OpenFile(dest, mode, 0644)
if err != nil {
return 0, fmt.Errorf("failed to open output file %q: %w", dest, err)
}
defer func() {
cerr := f.Close()
if retErr != nil || cerr != nil {
retErr = errors.Join(retErr, cerr, os.Remove(dest))
}
}()
// Copy file to f, but also into h to double-check hash.
h := sha256.New()
w := io.MultiWriter(f, h)
n, err := io.Copy(w, r)
if err != nil {
return 0, err
}
if fmt.Sprintf("%x", h.Sum(nil)) != outputID {
return 0, errors.New("file content changed underfoot")
}
return n, nil
}