Copilot review round 8 — two findings, both upheld. The first is a gap in
round 7's own fix.
**The snapshot was unprotected between two awaits.** Returning from
`withSecretFileLock(filePath, ...)` releases the main lock *before*
`handOffStagedSecrets` acquired the snapshot's, so a second startup could
take the main lock in that window, see the staged file unlocked, and adopt
and re-claim it — leaving this process reading a path that no longer exists.
Narrower than the race round 7 closed, but the same one.
`openSecretFileLock` is now split out of `withSecretFileLock`: it takes the
lock and returns its release, so a caller can hold one *across* another's
release. The claim acquires the snapshot's lock before returning — inside the
main lock — and the hand-off then runs outside the main lock, still holding
it. `withSecretFileLock` is a thin wrapper over the same function, so which
failures refuse and which degrade is decided in one place and the two entry
points cannot drift.
Locking the snapshot degrades rather than refusing (`null` → hand off
anyway): the exposure is one uniquely-named snapshot, which is a better trade
than refusing to migrate at all on a box that cannot lock.
**Both migration scans matched the lock directories themselves.**
`secrets.json.migrating-<pid>-<uuid>.lock` passes the plain prefix test, and
treating it as a snapshot is self-sustaining damage: the liveness probe asks
about a nonexistent `<name>.lock.lock` and so answers "not held", recovery
tries to hard-link a *directory* onto the secrets path, fails, and prints the
orphan warning. Because a liveness *check* never clears a stale lock
directory — only a would-be acquirer does — that false migration repeats on
every startup forever, including long after the real snapshot was recovered.
`isSnapshotName` now excludes `.lock` for both `anythingToMigrate` and
`recoverOrphanedSnapshots`.
New test verified by mutation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JTHVxSu8AUgHRLvo1ntZ8H
Signed-off-by: cliffhall <cliff@futurescale.com>