fix(ingestion): an unlistable brain root is a scan error, not clean
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PR #159 round 2: with the brain root at mode 0100 (enterable, not
listable) WalkDir failed at the root, Scan discarded the error and
reported clean, and startup passed while search, which goes straight
into wiki/, served a planted symlink. Scan now returns the root's walk
error, so startup refuses on anything but a missing root. Also pins
that a cleared set is reported again when it reappears.

Refs #157

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent 956ad8b9fb
commit cda18e6db8
3 changed files with 55 additions and 3 deletions
@@ -153,3 +153,37 @@ func TestWatchToleratesANonPositiveInterval(t *testing.T) {
t.Fatal("Watch did not return on cancel")
}
}
// PR #159 round 2: a brain root that can be entered but not listed (mode
// 0100) made WalkDir fail at the root; the error was discarded and Scan
// reported clean, while search (which goes straight into wiki/) still served
// a planted symlink. A root that cannot be listed is now an error.
func TestScanOfAnUnlistableRootIsAnError(t *testing.T) {
if os.Geteuid() == 0 {
t.Skip("root lists mode-0100 directories")
}
brain := t.TempDir()
require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(brain, "wiki"), 0o755))
require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), filepath.Join(brain, "wiki", "leak.md")))
require.NoError(t, os.Chmod(brain, 0o100))
t.Cleanup(func() { _ = os.Chmod(brain, 0o755) })
_, err := Scan(brain)
require.Error(t, err)
assert.False(t, errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist), "an unlistable root is not a missing root")
}
// The same set that disappears and comes back is reported again.
func TestWatchReportsASetAgainAfterItWasCleared(t *testing.T) {
brain := t.TempDir()
link := filepath.Join(brain, "planted")
n := &recNotifier{}
ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
defer cancel()
go Watch(ctx, brain, 10*time.Millisecond, n)
require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), link))
require.Eventually(t, func() bool { return n.count() == 1 }, 2*time.Second, 10*time.Millisecond)
require.NoError(t, os.Remove(link))
time.Sleep(60 * time.Millisecond)
require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), link))
require.Eventually(t, func() bool { return n.count() == 2 }, 2*time.Second, 10*time.Millisecond)
}