Summary
Running two msstore processes at the same time can crash one of them with an unhandled IOException while it loads or saves telemetrySettings.json.
Repro
Start two msstore invocations concurrently — anything is enough, since the telemetry configuration is loaded before the command line is even parsed:
Start-Job { msstore --help }
Start-Job { msstore --help }
Observed
One process terminates with an unhandled exception and exit code -532462766 (0xE0434352):
Unhandled exception. System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file
'C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\MSStore.CLI\telemetrySettings.json'
because it is being used by another process.
at Microsoft.Win32.SafeHandles.SafeFileHandle.CreateFile(String fullPath, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, FileOptions options)
Expected
Concurrent invocations should not crash. Telemetry configuration is incidental bookkeeping, so contention on it should at worst be ignored, not terminate the process.
Notes
Program.Main calls telemetryConfigurationManager.LoadAsync(true, …) and then CreateTelemetryClientAsync, which writes the file back when TelemetryEnabled is unset or the GUID is older than 24 hours. ConfigurationManager.LoadAsync/SaveAsync (MSStore.CLI/Services/ConfigurationManager.cs) open the file with no sharing mode, retry, or exception handling for this case, and nothing higher up catches it.
This matters most in CI, where several pipeline steps may invoke the CLI in parallel, and the failure is confusing because it is unrelated to the command being run.
Found incidentally while working on #161 / #174 — two probe invocations happened to overlap. Not caused by that change; it reproduces on main.
Summary
Running two
msstoreprocesses at the same time can crash one of them with an unhandledIOExceptionwhile it loads or savestelemetrySettings.json.Repro
Start two
msstoreinvocations concurrently — anything is enough, since the telemetry configuration is loaded before the command line is even parsed:Observed
One process terminates with an unhandled exception and exit code
-532462766(0xE0434352):Expected
Concurrent invocations should not crash. Telemetry configuration is incidental bookkeeping, so contention on it should at worst be ignored, not terminate the process.
Notes
Program.MaincallstelemetryConfigurationManager.LoadAsync(true, …)and thenCreateTelemetryClientAsync, which writes the file back whenTelemetryEnabledis unset or the GUID is older than 24 hours.ConfigurationManager.LoadAsync/SaveAsync(MSStore.CLI/Services/ConfigurationManager.cs) open the file with no sharing mode, retry, or exception handling for this case, and nothing higher up catches it.This matters most in CI, where several pipeline steps may invoke the CLI in parallel, and the failure is confusing because it is unrelated to the command being run.
Found incidentally while working on #161 / #174 — two probe invocations happened to overlap. Not caused by that change; it reproduces on
main.