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fga model test hangs when a glob matches a FIFO #739
fga model test --tests accepts a glob (filepath.Glob, cmd/model/test.go:75) and loops over every match. If a matched file is a FIFO with no writer, os.ReadFile blocks waiting for data that never arrives and the CLI hangs until it is killed.
Reproduction
mkdir repo &&cd repo
cat > ok.fga.yaml <<'YAML'name: okmodel: | model schema 1.1 type usertuples: []tests: []YAML
mkfifo evil.fga.yaml
fga model test --tests "*.fga.yaml"
Hangs indefinitely; needs Ctrl-C or SIGKILL. evil.fga.yaml was never named — the glob picked it up.
Reachability
A FIFO can't be committed to git (git add skips it), so this doesn't survive git clone. What does work:
an extracted tarball or zip (tar preserves FIFOs)
a mounted volume or shared directory
a committed symlink to a FIFO path that already exists on the victim's machine (symlinks do survive git clone)
Impact is a wedged terminal or CI job. A symlink to /dev/zero is also reachable but doesn't hang — the read terminates and YAML parsing fails with control characters are not allowed.
Prior art
kubectl doesn't check file type. ExpandPathsToFileVisitors (cli-runtime/pkg/resource/visitor.go) filters only directories and extensions during filepath.Walk, and FileVisitor.Visit does a bare os.Open. It streams rather than buffers.
Terraform checks, and distinguishes named paths from glob matches (internal/lang/funcs/filesystem.go). fileexists errors per irregular type — "is a device node", "is a named pipe", "is a unix domain socket". fileset, which globs, does os.Stat per match and continues past anything where !fi.Mode().IsRegular().
Suggested direction
Skip non-regular matches after filepath.Glob, following fileset. That leaves explicitly named paths alone, so --tests <(...) and --file <(...) keep working.
Whether an explicitly named non-regular path should error or be read as it is today is a separate decision.
Activity
terry-writer commentedon Aug 16, 2026
I'd like to work on this. Planning to follow the suggested direction (skip non-regular matches after filepath.Glob).
fix: skip non-regular files matched by glob in model test (openfga#742)