[Audit] Medium — Configuration is stored inside the installed package and rewritten non-atomically
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
Research direction
Start with user_scanner/core/helpers.py at lines 444 and 723–764, then read user_scanner/core/hudson.py lines 15–20 to trace configuration loading and writes. The issue calls for investigating all mutable state under package and repository paths and defining ownership, permissions, migration, corruption, and concurrency behavior. Done means configuration uses a platform user-config directory, has a defined schema, writes atomically with explicit errors, and the listed failure scenarios are covered.
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Description
- Location:
user_scanner/core/helpers.py:444,723-764and
user_scanner/core/hudson.py:15-20. - Defect / trigger: default
config.jsonlives undersite-packages/user_scanner; normal runs
create/overwrite it directly. Read-only/system installs fail, upgrades may erase preferences,
concurrent writers can truncate or lose updates, and malformed JSON is silently replaced. - Impact / root cause / evidence: startup/update prompts become unreliable and configuration
loss is concealed. - Smallest robust correction: use the platform user-config directory, validate a defined schema,
and write atomically with explicit error reporting and appropriate permissions. - Proving test: read-only package directory, concurrent writers, interrupted write, malformed
JSON, and package upgrade preserve or clearly report configuration state. - Confidence: high.
- LLM-agent warning: Keep investigating. Find all mutable state under package/repository paths
and define ownership, permissions, migration, corruption, and concurrency behavior.
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- Python
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