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Before: cargo check --target x86_64-pc-windows-gnu fails with fourteen errors. The positional reads and writes the downloader is built on come from std::os::unix::fs::FileExt, symlinks from std::os::unix::fs::symlink, and file modes from PermissionsExt — none of which exist off unix. There is no Windows binary and nothing in CI would notice if one stopped being possible.

After: the workspace compiles and links for x86_64-pc-windows-gnu, producing a tapline.exe, the suite runs on a real Windows machine in CI, and a cross-check job catches a std::os::unix import creeping back in. Linux is unchanged — same clippy gate, same tests, same behaviour, since on unix every new function is a one-line pass to the call it replaces.

A new crates/tapline-fs/src/file.rs holds the five filesystem primitives the installer needs — read_exact_at, write_all_at, symlink, remove_existing and set_mode — each as a #[cfg(unix)] / #[cfg(windows)] pair, and everything that used to reach into std::os::unix now goes through them.

How: the Windows halves are not one-line equivalents, because seek_read and seek_write are allowed to return short where their unix counterparts are not. Both loop until the buffer is exhausted, advancing the offset, and turn a zero-byte return into UnexpectedEof or WriteZero rather than reporting success — an unlooped partial read here is a silently corrupt install. symlink resolves the target against the link's own parent to choose between symlink_dir and symlink_file, which Windows makes you decide up front, and remove_existing clears whatever stood in the link's place, picking remove_dir for a directory link because remove_file will not take one. set_mode keeps the unix mode as its interface and maps the owner-write bit to the read-only flag. tests/gmod.rs and tests/differential.rs become #[cfg(unix)] — both install a Linux dedicated server and assert unix modes on every file, one against a real steamcmd install — and FileModes::mode_for, whose only coverage lived there, gets a portable unit test in install.rs.

The token store needed more than a translation. On unix it writes mode 0600 and refuses a file others can read; Windows has no mode, and %APPDATA% being private by default is a convention rather than a guarantee. So tapline-auth now sets an explicit DACL granting the current user alone, at creation time rather than afterwards, and refuses to load a file whose DACL has been widened. TokenStoreError gains a Shared { holder } variant that names who else can reach it. default_file() also stopped falling through to "." on Windows, which it did because it only consulted XDG_CONFIG_HOME and HOME; it now resolves %APPDATA%, %LOCALAPPDATA%, %USERPROFILE%.

That last part is the only place in the workspace that calls Win32 by hand, so it is worth saying where the seams are. The decision logic — build the descriptor, judge whether a descriptor grants anyone else access — is plain string handling in sddl.rs, compiled and tested on every platform, twelve tests covering absent DACLs, inherited ACEs, deny ACEs, SID aliases and a trailing SACL. Only five calls are FFI, and they live in windows_acl.rs behind #[cfg(windows)]. The crate restates the workspace lints so it can say unsafe_code = "deny" instead of forbid, because forbid cannot be opted out of and the crates that wrap these APIs are either unmaintained since 2021 or weeks old with three-figure download counts. Nothing but that one module may use it, and on Linux and macOS it is not compiled at all.

Because none of that is exercised by a cross-compile, there is now a windows-latest job running clippy and the full suite natively, with Developer Mode enabled so the symlink paths can run at all. It is free on a public repository, and it earned its place on the first run by failing twice for real reasons:

• The owner check compared SID text. A security descriptor read back from a file renders well-known SIDs as their SDDL aliases, so the account that wrote S-1-5-21-…-500 read back as LA and was refused its own token file — which would have hit anyone running as the built-in Administrator. Both sides are now resolved to real SIDs and compared as SIDs.
• steamcmds_own_record_round_trips_byte_for_byte compares a captured appmanifest against what the writer produces, and git for Windows converted the fixture to CRLF on checkout. A .gitattributes pins the working tree to LF and marks the captured fixtures binary, so nothing rewrites them. git add --renormalize . changes no tracked file, so this decides only what a clone gets.

Two things a reader should know. Creating a symlink on Windows needs Developer Mode or SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege, so a depot containing symlinks will fail the install with a permissions error on a stock machine; that is Windows policy rather than something this diff can work around, and recording those files as skipped instead of failing the install is a separate decision. And the ACL check treats SYSTEM and Administrators as acceptable holders, because they can take ownership of any file regardless.

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• New Features

  • Added Windows support for file reading, writing, symbolic links, permissions, and secure token storage.
  • Added platform-aware configuration directory handling.

• Bug Fixes

  • File operations now handle complete reads and writes consistently across supported platforms.
  • Token files now detect access granted to other users.

• Tests

  • Expanded coverage for Windows file operations, symbolic links, read-only modes, permissions, and installation behavior.
  • Added Windows build and validation checks to continuous integration.

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The pull request adds portable filesystem helpers, migrates Unix-specific callers, adds Windows authentication ACL handling, gates Unix-only code, and adds Windows CI checks.

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Windows portability

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Portable filesystem helpers crates/tapline-fs/src/file.rs, crates/tapline-fs/src/lib.rs	Adds positional I/O, symlink, removal, and mode helpers with Unix and Windows implementations. Adds tests for these operations.
Filesystem consumer migration crates/tapline-rt-tokio/..., crates/tapline/src/session.rs, crates/tapline/src/validate.rs, crates/tapline/src/install.rs, crates/tapline/tests/*	Replaces Unix-specific filesystem calls with shared helpers. Adds permission-policy coverage and gates Unix-only integration tests.
Authentication store portability crates/tapline-auth/...	Adds configuration-directory resolution, Windows SDDL parsing, Windows ACL file operations, shared-access errors, and platform-specific authentication tests.
Windows build validation .github/workflows/ci.yml	Adds configurable runners, read-only workflow permissions, credential-free checkouts, and native Windows lint and test coverage.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d3036

Windows token creation and permission validation can execute undefined behavior while reading the current user SID. Apply the aligned or unaligned read correction before merging.

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In @.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Line 49: Update the workflow permissions to grant only contents read access,
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In `@crates/tapline-auth/src/store.rs`:
- Around line 271-273: Update check_permissions to validate that token files
have a private Windows DACL, and update create_private to create temporary files
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