bench/guard.test.ts

@@ -219,4 +219,18 @@ describe("provisionArmBin", () => {
   it("throws when the arm's binary cannot be located", () => {
     expect(() => provisionArmBin("tea", binDir, () => null)).toThrow(/tea/);
   });
+
+  it("is idempotent across the trials of one sitting sharing a bin directory", () => {
+    // A benchmark sitting runs several trials against one per-sitting bin
+    // directory, so provisionArmBin is called once per trial on the same dir.
+    // A repeat call must not throw and must leave a single symlink, not a
+    // duplicate or a partially-clobbered link.
+    expect(() => {
+      provisionArmBin("gitea-axi", binDir, locate);
+      provisionArmBin("gitea-axi", binDir, locate);
+    }).not.toThrow();
+
+    expect(readdirSync(binDir)).toEqual(["gitea-axi"]);
+    expect(readlinkSync(join(binDir, "gitea-axi"))).toBe("/fake/prefix/gitea-axi");
+  });
 });

bench/guard.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { accessSync, constants, mkdirSync, symlinkSync } from "node:fs";
+import { accessSync, constants, mkdirSync, rmSync, symlinkSync } from "node:fs";
 import { join } from "node:path";
 import type { Arm } from "./result.js";
 
@@ -303,7 +303,12 @@ export function provisionArmBin(
       `cannot provision the ${arm} arm: its binary "${binary}" was not found on PATH`,
     );
   }
-  symlinkSync(target, join(binDir, binary));
+  // Idempotent: the trials in one sitting share a single bin directory, so a prior
+  // trial may have already created this link. Remove any existing entry before
+  // re-linking rather than letting symlinkSync fail with EEXIST on the second trial.
+  const linkPath = join(binDir, binary);
+  rmSync(linkPath, { force: true });
+  symlinkSync(target, linkPath);
 }
 
 /** Resolve `binary` to the absolute path of the first executable of that name on PATH. */