* Since the CGI had to drop the wiki lock to avoid deadlocking the

commit hook, it was possible for one CGI to race another one and "win"
  the commit of both their files. This race has been fixed by adding a new
  commitlock, which when locked by the CGI, disables the commit hook
  (except for commit mails). The CGI then takes care of the updates the
  commit hook would have done.

IkiWiki.pm

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ sub defaultconfig () { #{{{
 	wikiname => "wiki",
 	default_pageext => "mdwn",
 	cgi => 0,
+	post_commit => 0,
 	rcs => '',
 	notify => 0,
 	url => '',
@@ -601,7 +602,7 @@ sub lockwiki () { #{{{
 	}
 	open(WIKILOCK, ">$config{wikistatedir}/lockfile") ||
 		error ("cannot write to $config{wikistatedir}/lockfile: $!");
-	if (! flock(WIKILOCK, 2 | 4)) {
+	if (! flock(WIKILOCK, 2 | 4)) { # LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB
 		debug("wiki seems to be locked, waiting for lock");
 		my $wait=600; # arbitrary, but don't hang forever to 
 		              # prevent process pileup
@@ -617,6 +618,29 @@ sub unlockwiki () { #{{{
 	close WIKILOCK;
 } #}}}
 
+sub commit_hook_enabled () { #{{{
+	open(COMMITLOCK, "+>$config{wikistatedir}/commitlock") ||
+		error ("cannot write to $config{wikistatedir}/commitlock: $!");
+	if (! flock(WIKILOCK, 1 | 4)) { # LOCK_SH | LOCK_NB to test
+		close WIKILOCK;
+		return 0;
+	}
+	close WIKILOCK;
+	return 1;
+} #}}}
+
+sub disable_commit_hook () { #{{{
+	open(COMMITLOCK, ">$config{wikistatedir}/commitlock") ||
+		error ("cannot write to $config{wikistatedir}/commitlock: $!");
+	if (! flock(COMMITLOCK, 2)) { # LOCK_EX
+		error("failed to get commit lock");
+	}
+} #}}}
+
+sub enable_commit_hook () { #{{{
+	close COMMITLOCK;
+} #}}}
+
 sub loadindex () { #{{{
 	open (IN, "$config{wikistatedir}/index") || return;
 	while (<IN>) {

IkiWiki/CGI.pm

@@ -513,6 +513,7 @@ sub cgi_editpage ($$) { #{{{
 			return;
 		}
 		
+		my $conflict;
 		if ($config{rcs}) {
 			my $message="";
 			if (defined $form->field('comments') &&
@@ -523,13 +524,24 @@ sub cgi_editpage ($$) { #{{{
 			if ($newfile) {
 				rcs_add($file);
 			}
-			# prevent deadlock with post-commit hook
-			unlockwiki();
-			# presumably the commit will trigger an update
-			# of the wiki
-			my $conflict=rcs_commit($file, $message,
+
+			# Prevent deadlock with post-commit hook by
+			# signaling to it that it should not try to
+			# do anything (except send commit mails).
+			disable_commit_hook();
+			$conflict=rcs_commit($file, $message,
 				$form->field("rcsinfo"),
 				$session->param("name"), $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR});
+			enable_commit_hook();
+			rcs_update();
+		}
+		
+		# Refresh even if there was a conflict, since other changes
+		# may have been committed while the post-commit hook was
+		# disabled.
+		require IkiWiki::Render;
+		refresh();
+		saveindex();
 
 		if (defined $conflict) {
 			$form->field(name => "rcsinfo", value => rcs_prepedit($file),
@@ -546,22 +558,11 @@ sub cgi_editpage ($$) { #{{{
 			return;
 		}
 		else {
-				# Make sure that the repo is up-to-date;
-				# locking prevents the post-commit hook
-				# from updating it.
-				rcs_update();
-			}
-		}
-		else {
-			require IkiWiki::Render;
-			refresh();
-			saveindex();
-		}
-		
 			# The trailing question mark tries to avoid broken
 			# caches and get the most recent version of the page.
 			redirect($q, "$config{url}/".htmlpage($page)."?updated");
 		}
+	}
 } #}}}
 
 sub cgi_getsession ($) { #{{{

IkiWiki/Plugin/poll.pm

@@ -125,17 +125,17 @@ sub cgi ($) { #{{{
 		IkiWiki::cgi_savesession($session);
 		$oldchoice=$session->param($choice_param);
 		if ($config{rcs}) {
-			# prevent deadlock with post-commit hook
-			IkiWiki::unlockwiki();
+			disable_commit_hook();
 			IkiWiki::rcs_commit($pagesources{$page}, "poll vote ($choice)",
 				IkiWiki::rcs_prepedit($pagesources{$page}),
 				$session->param("name"), $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR});
+			enable_commit_hook();
+			rcs_update();
 		}
-		else {
 		require IkiWiki::Render;
 		IkiWiki::refresh();
 		IkiWiki::saveindex();
-		}
+
 		# Need to set cookie in same http response that does the
 		# redir.
 		eval q{use CGI::Cookie};

IkiWiki/Setup/Standard.pm

@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ sub setup_standard {
 		foreach my $wrapper (@wrappers) {
 			%config=(%startconfig, verbose => 0, %setup, %{$wrapper});
 			checkconfig();
+			if (! $config{cgi} && ! $config{post_commit}) {
+				$config{post_commit}=1;
+			}
 			gen_wrapper();
 		}
 		%config=(%startconfig);

debian/changelog

@@ -27,8 +27,14 @@ ikiwiki (1.44) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Smarter detection of no-op changes to po files.
   * Elegant patch from Ethan to clean up the display of page names in the
     dropdown when creating a new page.
+  * Since the CGI had to drop the wiki lock to avoid deadlocking the
+    commit hook, it was possible for one CGI to race another one and "win"
+    the commit of both their files. This race has been fixed by adding a new
+    commitlock, which when locked by the CGI, disables the commit hook
+    (except for commit mails). The CGI then takes care of the updates the
+    commit hook would have done.
 
- -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:14:39 -0500
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:35:52 -0500
 
 ikiwiki (1.43) unstable; urgency=low
 

ikiwiki.in

@@ -117,6 +117,12 @@ sub main () { #{{{
 		require IkiWiki::Render;
 		commandline_render();
 	}
+	elsif ($config{post_commit} && ! commit_hook_enabled()) {
+		if ($config{notify}) {
+			loadindex();
+			rcs_notify();
+		}
+	}
 	else {
 		lockwiki();
 		loadindex();

po/ikiwiki.pot

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ msgid ""
 msgstr ""
 "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
 "Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
-"POT-Creation-Date: 2007-02-20 19:07-0500\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2007-02-21 03:51-0500\n"
 "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
 "Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
 "Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
@@ -41,16 +41,16 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "creating %s"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: ../IkiWiki/CGI.pm:483 ../IkiWiki/CGI.pm:511 ../IkiWiki/CGI.pm:544
+#: ../IkiWiki/CGI.pm:483 ../IkiWiki/CGI.pm:511 ../IkiWiki/CGI.pm:556
 #, perl-format
 msgid "editing %s"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: ../IkiWiki/CGI.pm:652
+#: ../IkiWiki/CGI.pm:653
 msgid "You are banned."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: ../IkiWiki/CGI.pm:684
+#: ../IkiWiki/CGI.pm:685
 msgid "login failed, perhaps you need to turn on cookies?"
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -380,15 +380,15 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "generating wrappers.."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: ../IkiWiki/Setup/Standard.pm:68
+#: ../IkiWiki/Setup/Standard.pm:71
 msgid "rebuilding wiki.."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: ../IkiWiki/Setup/Standard.pm:71
+#: ../IkiWiki/Setup/Standard.pm:74
 msgid "refreshing wiki.."
 msgstr ""
 
-#: ../IkiWiki/Setup/Standard.pm:80
+#: ../IkiWiki/Setup/Standard.pm:83
 msgid "done"
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -437,11 +437,11 @@ msgstr ""
 msgid "usage: ikiwiki [options] source dest"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: ../IkiWiki.pm:103
+#: ../IkiWiki.pm:104
 msgid "Must specify url to wiki with --url when using --cgi"
 msgstr ""
 
-#: ../IkiWiki.pm:150 ../IkiWiki.pm:151
+#: ../IkiWiki.pm:151 ../IkiWiki.pm:152
 msgid "Error"
 msgstr ""
 
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ msgstr ""
 #. translators: preprocessor directive name,
 #. translators: the second a page name, the
 #. translators: third a number.
-#: ../IkiWiki.pm:560
+#: ../IkiWiki.pm:561
 #, perl-format
 msgid "%s preprocessing loop detected on %s at depth %i"
 msgstr ""