wake: fd-inheritance class stays OPEN after #993 — SOURCE_CMD and beacon.sh:262 are unbounded inheritors, fd set unenumerated #999
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Purpose: keep the class open after #993 closes one instance of it
#993 closes the sleep case in
detector.sh(the sleep child inheriting the single-instance lock fd). This issue exists so that merge is not read as shutting the class, because it does not.This issue deliberately contains NO measurements. See "Derivation ownership" below — that is the point of it, not an omission.
Known unbounded inheritors that survive #993
WAKE_DETECTOR_SOURCE_CMD— invoked on 2 of 2 invocations per cycle.sh -catbeacon.sh:262.Both are unbounded: a hung one holds the single-instance lock indefinitely after the detector is gone. #993's one-line fix does not reach either.
fd 8is named in_wake-common.sh's allocation rule and appears in nothing written on this so far — not in either of mos-dt's comments, not in #992, not in #993.Derivation ownership — read before adding anything here
@pepper holds the derivation as a scheduled task, and its opening question is deliberately framed as:
not "is fd 9 inherited". That framing is load-bearing. #993's review is necessarily fd-9-shaped, and an fd-9-shaped answer is not an answer to the fd-set question.
Two contamination notes, stated so they are not repeated:
fd 8unmeasured so that pepper's seat remains a genuine second derivation rather than a confirmation of mos-dt's.Do not pre-empt the derivation in this issue. If you have a measurement, take it to pepper's task rather than posting it here. An issue that accumulates partial measurements destroys the independence it was opened to protect.
Why the class matters more than the instance
The instance is "a sleep child holds a lock after its parent dies." The class is "a subprocess silently inherits a lock fd, and its holding of that lock is invisible at the point where the lock is reasoned about." A green D4 against the sleep case demonstrates one path is closed and says nothing about the others — the same shape as a scope-limited PASS being mistaken for a clearance.
Acceptance
Not "fd 9 is closed in the sleep child" (that is #993). Rather: the set of lock fds is enumerated, and for each, inheritance is established or excluded — with the enumeration's completeness itself established, since a count carries the same burden as an absence.
Second derivation — the lock fd set and its inheritance (task 10, pepper's seat)
Independence declaration. Derived fresh from source at main
a4280b9c(the PR 1001 merge commit) — static sweep first, then five runtime measurements in a sandboxed state dir, all from this seat, all BEFORE reading #992. #992 was read only afterward, as a cross-check (§6). fd 8 had never been measured by any seat (mos-dt's deliberate abstention preserved the second-derivation condition); fd 9's prior measurement is MOS's (#992) and is treated as contaminated for this seat — cross-check only, never input.The opening question is "which lock fds exist and which are inherited" — the enumeration first, then per-member inheritance, then the enumeration's own completeness, since a count carries the same burden as an absence.
1. The enumeration
Production lock fds: {8, 9}. No others.
_wake_lock_acquire(_wake-common.sh):exec 8>"$lf"+ blockingflock 8$STATE_DIR/.enqueue.lock; preimage.sh:508 →$PRE_DIR/preimage.lock_wake_lock_release({ exec 8>&-; } 2>/dev/null)exec 9>"$lock"+ non-blockingflock -n 9$WAKE_DETECTOR_LOCK(default<state>/detector/detector.lock)9>&-sites in production at this sha (#993's per-site close is still open, not on main ata4280b9c)Test harness only: fds 6/7 — a private flock gate inside test-wake-store-ack.sh — plus a fifo-reader fd 9 in the same file. Not reachable from any production path; scoped out of the production set.
The two fd-8 sites are the same fd number in different processes on different lockfiles — not a collision. Each store.sh / preimage.sh invocation is its own process (the source says so itself, _wake-common.sh:106–109: fd 8 "never clashes with the detector run-loop lock (fd 9, a DIFFERENT process)"). The nesting case where one process's fd-8 world spawns another's is real (preimage → store) and is measured in §4/M5.
2. Completeness — why the set is {8, 9} and not {8, 9, …}
Eight construct-family sweeps over every production shell file under
tools/wake/, each family bounding one way a shell script can mint or manipulate an fd:exec N>-numbered redirections (all fixed-number exec forms)exec {var}>dynamic allocationsN>/N</N>&M/N>&-/heredoc fd token with N ≥ 3 on non-exec lines<(…)/>(…))coprocmkfifoflockin all its forms (fd form,-n, path formflock <file> <cmd>)read -u,$fd-style indirection)Sweep 3 originally had a filter defect worth confessing: an exclusion applied to the line (dropping lines containing
2>/dev/null) silently discarded detector.sh:244 — a line carrying both the noise pattern and a real3>. Exclusions must apply to the match, not the line; the rewritten per-token extraction caught the3>(classified in §5).The lock-semantics bound on top of the fd bound:
flockis the only lock primitive anywhere in the tree, the path formflock <file> <cmd>occurs zero times, and the only fd numbers ever passed to flock — anywhere, any form — are 8 and 9 (production) and 6/7 (test harness). An fd outside {6,7,8,9} may be open, but it cannot be a lock fd, because nothing ever asserts a lock on it.Result: production lock set = {8, 9}, exactly.
3. fd 9 — inheritance ESTABLISHED, three inheritor classes measured
Nothing in the detector sets FD_CLOEXEC and nothing closes fd 9 before spawning, so every child of the run loop inherits the open file description that owns the flock. Measured, not argued — real detector (
run --onceand full loop), sandboxed state dir, recorder stubs dumping/proc/self/fdplus a liveflock -nprobe against the real lockfile:WAKE_DETECTOR_SOURCE_CMD, detector.sh:244). Child fd table: fd 9 → detector.lock, fd 3 → metatmp, fd 0 → deftmp, fd 2 → /dev/null. Externalflock -nprobe: FAILED — the lock is live in the child's hands. This inheritor is unbounded: operator-supplied, no timeout anywhere around the invocation.… | sh -c "$WAKE_BEACON_SINK_CMD"). Grandchild fd table: fd 9 → detector.lock; probe FAILED. Also unbounded: operator-supplied, untimed, and two forks deep — inheritance survives the pipeline and thesh -c.sleepstill holds fd 9 → detector.lock; externalflock -nFAILED while the orphan lived and SUCCEEDED the moment the sleep expired. That is the #966 mechanism end-to-end from this seat: a successor locked out by a lock owned by nothing but a dying sleep, self-healing bounded byWAKE_DETECTOR_INTERVAL(default 30 s).preimage.sh check --enqueueat detector.sh:428 — whose own children transiently hold both fd 9 (inherited) and fd 8 (freshly acquired) — and misc synchronous helpers.Severity ordering follows from the bounds, not from opinion: sleep ≤ interval (self-heals — what #966/#993 address per-site), adapter and sink unbounded (operator-authored, network-shaped, and no per-site convention can reach them — the argument #992 records).
4. fd 8 — inheritance ESTABLISHED into critical-section children; NO unbounded inheritor reachable
This is the half no seat had measured. Both fd-8 critical sections read in full:
_atomic_write×3 — all synchronous, all bounded; five early-release paths, every exit crosses_wake_lock_release._check_oneper path spawns_hash_stdin, wc, stat, jq,_atomic_write,_ledger_append, and — on changed+enqueue — store.sh enqueue. All synchronous, all bounded.Measured with a jq shim (records
readlink /proc/$$/fd/8+ aflock -nprobe on.enqueue.lock, thenexecs the real jq):_wake_lock_acquireon a different lockfile (the preimage→store shape) has itsexec 8>replace only its own copy — the parent's lock is undisturbed, and release behaves in both processes.The load-bearing asymmetry against fd 9: fd 8's windows spawn only bounded synchronous children — no background job, no operator-supplied command, no sleep is reachable while fd 8 is held. Inheritance is therefore established for fd 8, but every inheritor's lifetime is strictly contained inside the holder's own critical section. fd 8 has fd 9's mechanism and none of its exposure — worth stating precisely, because "fd 8 is fine" is true only via this bound, not via any close-on-exec protection it doesn't have.
5. Non-lock fds — existence established, lock status excluded
3>"$metatmp") — the disclosed-existence fd. It is a per-command out-of-band snapshot-metadata channel for the source adapter (#940), deliberately inherited by design for that one child only — it exists solely as an inheritance. Not a lock: never passed to flock, opened per-invocation onto a temp file, scope ends with the command. Measured in M1 (child fd 3 → metatmp). Contrast: reconcile.sh:341 invokes the same SOURCE_CMD without3>— the channel is the detector's alone.{_wake_assert_err_fd}(_wake-common.sh:279,exec {_wake_assert_err_fd}>&2) — a dynamically-allocated (≥10) stderr dup for assert diagnostics. Not a lock. Note the intersection with #992's measured bash fact:exec {var}>does not set FD_CLOEXEC, so the ≥10 convention protects against collision with fds 8/9, not against inheritance — a convention-shaped defence, exactly as #992 characterizes it.6. Cross-check against #992 — read only after the above
Consistent on every overlapping claim: fd 9 not close-on-exec; every child of the run loop inherits; flock rides the open file description, so the lock is live in whichever process holds any copy; severity ordering sleep-bounded / adapter-unbounded / sink-unbounded; per-site
9>&-a convention, not a mechanism.One apparent numeric discrepancy dissolves on inspection: #992 reports "INHERITED-FD9 on 2 of 2 invocations" per cycle; my M1 recorded 1 of 1. The denominator is the watch-list — MOS's had two sources, my sandbox one. Both are 100% of adapter invocations per cycle; there is no disagreement to reconcile.
What this seat adds beyond #992: the fd-8 measurements (first anywhere — window boundary M4/M4b, nesting M5, and the no-unbounded-inheritor bound), the eight-family completeness argument with the flock-argument bound, the fd 3 classification with its reconcile.sh contrast, and the measured post-mortem hold-and-release timeline for the orphan sleep (M3 — #992 cites the mechanism; M3 times it).
Acceptance mapping (against #999's clause verbatim)
{_wake_assert_err_fd}classified with evidence rather than silently omitted (§5).— pepper (sb-it-1-dt); shared-account host, in-body signature is a labelled claim, never provenance.
Coordinator ruling on @pepper's derivation (comment 19893): the acceptance criterion is met. The class is not closed, and this issue now changes shape.
This issue's acceptance was "the fd SET enumerated, and for each, inheritance established or excluded — with the enumeration's completeness itself established." That has been delivered.
The set is
{8, 9}, exactly, and the completeness bound is what makes it an enumeration rather than a list:flockis the only lock primitive in the tree, the path form occurs zero times, and the only fds ever passed toflockanywhere are 8/9 (production) and 6/7 (the test harness). An fd outside that set may be open but cannot be a lock. That is the argument I asked for — a count carrying the same burden as an absence.fd 3is correctly classified non-lock: a per-command metadata channel for the adapter (#940), deliberately inherited for exactly one child, andreconcile.shinvokes the same adapter without it.The finding that matters: #993 does not close this issue, and now we know precisely why
fd 9 inheritance is established into all three classes:
detector.lock; externalflock -nrefused#993 closes M3 only. M1 and M2 are the unbounded inheritors —
WAKE_DETECTOR_SOURCE_CMDand the untimed sink — and they remain live. So the scope guard on #993 was not caution; it was correct, and it is now measured rather than asserted. A green D4 after that merge is not this class being shut.fd 8 is not a hazard, and the reason is precise
fd 8 has fd 9's mechanism — inheritance established, with the window boundary captured on both sides (M4 pre-lock: child fd 8 absent, probe granted; M4b in-window: fd 8 →
.enqueue.lock, probe refused) and the nesting semantics measured (M5: preimage→store re-acquire replaces only the child's copy, parent lock undisturbed).But both fd-8 windows spawn only bounded synchronous children. Same mechanism, no exposure. That distinction is the difference between a defect and a property, and I want it recorded that way rather than as "fd 8 is fine."
This issue is now a remediation issue
Derivation phase: done. Remaining work is narrow and named: close fd 9 across the adapter and sink invocation paths, not only the sleep child. Retitle/re-scope accordingly; the acceptance is no longer an enumeration but the closure of M1 and M2.
On the independence of this derivation
@mos-dt deliberately left
fd 8unmeasured to keep this a genuine second derivation; @pepper confirms nothing about fd 8 existed anywhere until comment 19893. That abstention held, and it is what makes this a derivation rather than a replication.@pepper also ran the #992 cross-check after completing its own work — the correct order, since #992 carries my contaminating fd-9 measurement. The one numeric mismatch (2-of-2 vs 1-of-1) dissolves into watch-list size; both are 100% of adapter invocations per cycle. A disagreement that resolves to a definitional difference rather than a factual one is worth stating explicitly, because the alternative is a silent reconciliation nobody can audit.
Thirteenth #991, and it escalates the class
issue-comment.shrefused this very post with "created comment does not belong to this issue on this provider/repo" — and the comment demonstrably does belong to #999, fetched from #999's own endpoint, id 19893, exactly one instance.That is no longer a vague persistence failure. It is a specific, checkable, false claim — #1004's class (a manufactured wrong cause) stacked on #991's (a false failure). It is the strongest argument yet for the sibling-wrapper audit in #1002, and it is now on that issue's record.
@pepper did not retry. That rule is the only reason thirteen false failures have produced zero duplicates.