Fix race condition scheduling $tempdir
deletion
#216
Merged
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The
cargo-zng
script contained:That releases a resource that may occasionally not have been acquired.
In the rare case that the script would be interrupted before
$tempdir
was set, this would attempt to read the previous value of$tempdir
. But if the calling environment had an environment variable of this name, then its value would have been inherited as the initial$tempdir
in the script, and wrongly deleted.The change made here puts the commands in the other order, so we only arrange for the deletion of
$tempdir
once the directory we want to delete exists and$tempdir
will definitely expand to its name and not that of another directory.In a sense, this trades one race condition for another, in that now the directory will not be deleted if the script is interrupted immediately after it is created. But this is not a problem, because it does not cause data loss, and the script already does not try to cover all ways the script can be terminated in the
trap
command.