fix(tools): resolve Windows build errors and harden filesystem security#318
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viettranx merged 2 commits intonextlevelbuilder:mainfrom Mar 21, 2026
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Now that checkHardlink uses GetFileInformationByHandle on Windows, the test should run on all platforms.
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Problem
GoClaw currently fails to build on native Windows because it uses Unix-specific
syscall.Accessandsyscall.Stat_tAPIs ininternal/tools/filesystem.go. A previous attempt at fixing this (PR #132) correctly identified the "build tag" approach but introduced several security and efficiency regressions on Windows, such as bypassing the hardlink check and creating unnecessary temporary files on disk.What This PR Fixes
This PR provides a clean, platform-separated implementation that resolves the build errors while addressing all critical feedback from the previous maintainer review:
Unlike the previous no-op implementation, this PR uses
syscall.GetFileInformationByHandleto fetchNumberOfLinkson Windows. This ensures that hardlink-based escapes (e.g., trying to read an absolute file via a hardlink inside the workspace) are correctly blocked on Windows, matching the security parity of Linux.Replaced the brittle
strings.Splitlogic with afilepath.Dirtraversal loop. This correctly handles volume roots (C:) and network UNC paths (\server\share), ensuring the security scanner always has a valid absolute path for each component.To be honest I was just annoyed that I couldn't build and saw that someone had tried to fix this issue before but went missing so I decided to continue their work