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-rw-r--r--cmd/gotosocial/action/server/server.go7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/cmd/gotosocial/action/server/server.go b/cmd/gotosocial/action/server/server.go
index ae43995e5..d71ef5b4f 100644
--- a/cmd/gotosocial/action/server/server.go
+++ b/cmd/gotosocial/action/server/server.go
@@ -102,7 +102,12 @@ var Start action.GTSAction = func(ctx context.Context) error {
// Open the storage backend
storageBasePath := viper.GetString(config.Keys.StorageLocalBasePath)
storage, err := kv.OpenFile(storageBasePath, &storage.DiskConfig{
- LockFile: path.Join(storageBasePath, "store.lock"), // put the store lockfile in the storage dir itself
+ // Put the store lockfile in the storage dir itself.
+ // Normally this would not be safe, since we could end up
+ // overwriting the lockfile if we store a file called 'store.lock'.
+ // However, in this case it's OK because the keys are set by
+ // GtS and not the user, so we know we're never going to overwrite it.
+ LockFile: path.Join(storageBasePath, "store.lock"),
})
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("error creating storage backend: %s", err)