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Each ACL-hardened write on Windows ran the icacls sequence twice against the same file. atomicWriteFile hardens the temp while it is still empty, so it is never readable by another principal, and hardens it again before the rename. The content written in between moves the success memo's freshness component (ctimeNs, which libuv reports from the NTFS ChangeTime), so the second call missed the memo and reapplied the ACL the file already had: /grant:r, /inheritance:r, /remove:g, plus up to three /findsid probes. After the content write the writer now re-asserts that the path still resolves to the object its descriptor holds, then re-attributes the memo to that same object, so the pre-rename harden resolves through the memo instead of repeating the mutation. Both calls stay required: true and still fail the write closed; re-attribution moves only the freshness, and only for an unchanged object. Windows also stops taking the chmod on that path. There it sets the read-only attribute rather than the DACL, so it is not the secret boundary, and its ChangeTime bump is what retired the memo a line later. POSIX keeps it. A cold ocx start writes ocx.pid and runtime-port.json through this writer, so those two writes go from four icacls sequences to two.
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participant atomicWriteFile
participant WindowsSecretACL
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atomicWriteFile->>WindowsSecretACL: harden temporary path
WindowsSecretACL->>icacls: run ACL hardening commands
icacls-->>WindowsSecretACL: return success or failure
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atomicWriteFile->>WindowsSecretACL: reattribute same-object memo
WindowsSecretACL->>FileSystem: verify path observation
WindowsSecretACL-->>atomicWriteFile: return memo status
atomicWriteFile->>FileSystem: rename temporary path
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리뷰 · 우선순위 73 / 80지금 문제는 간단합니다. 선택한 방향은 '두 번째 harden 호출을 지우지 않고 메모 히트로 만들기'입니다. 내용 쓰기 뒤 디스크립터/경로 동일성을 보안 회계도 본문에 길게 적혀 있고, 읽기 기준은 맞습니다. 비교가 틀리면 메모를 '잘못 만족'시키는 쪽이 아니라 거부하고 풀 harden으로 돌아가며, 테스트는 라인 atomic-write.ts · carryHardenAcrossContentWrite - 재귀속을 디스크립터 메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점
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Update every structure doc mapped to src/lib
This changes the success-memo semantics for src/lib/, but of the eight structure documents mapped to that area, only structure/runtime.md was updated; overview.md, transports/byte-accounting.md, transports/responses.md, transports/inventory.md, gui-and-management-api.md, clients/integrations.md, and ops/docs-and-release.md remain untouched. Update every mapped document in this change, or narrow the manifest ownership where a document does not actually describe this subsystem, so the source-to-doc map does not leave the new Windows ACL contract inconsistently documented.
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In `@src/config/atomic-write.ts`:
- Around line 159-161: Validate the secret-bearing configuration change by
running the Windows ACL test, typecheck, and privacy scan; if more than one file
changed, also run the changed-tests command. Report any Windows validation that
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In `@tests/windows/windows-acl-start-cost.test.ts`:
- Around line 237-240: Extend the Windows ACL tests with separate synchronous
and asynchronous cases covering post-write hardening failure in atomicWriteFile
and its async counterpart. Configure the test runner so the initial
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| function carryHardenAcrossContentWrite(path: string): void { | ||
| if (!windowsHardeningApplies()) return; | ||
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| setIcaclsRunnerForTests(args => { | ||
| commands.push(args); | ||
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Cover post-write hardening failure for both writers.
atomicWriteFile hardens the temporary file before writing, then calls effective.harden(tmp) after the content write (src/config/atomic-write.ts:246-254). The current runner fails the initial hardenSecretPath call, so the test never reaches the post-write hardening branch. The async writer has the same gap (src/config/atomic-write.ts:328-332).
Add sync and async cases that make reattributeHardenedSecretPath return false after the content write, allow the initial ACL sequence to succeed, and fail the following required hardening call. Assert that each writer throws and that its destination does not exist.
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In `@tests/windows/windows-acl-start-cost.test.ts` around lines 237 - 240, Extend
the Windows ACL tests with separate synchronous and asynchronous cases covering
post-write hardening failure in atomicWriteFile and its async counterpart.
Configure the test runner so the initial hardenSecretPath ACL sequence succeeds,
reattributeHardenedSecretPath returns false after content is written, and the
subsequent required hardening call fails; assert each writer throws and leaves
the destination absent.
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…it holds Windows has been failing one shard per lane=all dispatch for weeks, and the shard number kept moving while the case family did not. The repository already wrote the right conclusion down once - the blame moved, the cause did not - and #4825 was the attempt at it. It did not land the fix. #4825 replaced "kill and resolve in the same tick" with "kill, wait up to two seconds, then abandon". That is the same false ownership contract on a slower clock. When the grace expired the caller was told its child was gone, cleanup removed the directory, and Windows returned EPERM because icacls still held it: EPERM: operation not permitted, rm '...\Temp\opencodex-test-vwyZZv\tmp\ocx-management-auth-kgvXCT' (fail) codex app-server restart routes ride the management gate > the data-plane token does not authorize the restart route [15367.90ms] A handle-bearing caller now has no second deadline after the kill. The child's actual exit is the only release signal, because it is the only thing that is true. Only the icacls runner takes that path; windows-user-principal passes 0 and still abandons immediately, since its PowerShell lookup sits on the startup critical path and holds no path anyone removes. The icacls runner's own outer watchdog still bounds the caller, so nothing can wait forever - the reap continues in the background and teardown drains it through flushRequiredSubprocessReapsForTests. The regression test no longer sleeps. A manual deadline seam orders kill against exit directly, so it proves the sequence rather than waiting for it. The Desktop copy-coherence probes are the same mechanism seen from the other end. Those scenarios perform different numbers of secure writes, each able to launch PowerShell or icacls on Windows, and that contention was spending a deadline the probe shares. The generated child now installs the existing synthetic principal and ACL runner seams before it loads any client module. Files, SQLite, locking, rotation, recovery and Desktop projection stay real; only the ACL subprocesses become synthetic, and an ACL descendant can no longer outlive the parent's kill holding a temp path. Causation was checked before writing any of this. Across 48 lane=all dispatches that completed all six Windows shards without PR #4836, the EPERM class appears in 3 and the probe-timeout class in 1, so both predate that PR and neither is attributable to it. No local suite, focused test, typecheck, build, or install was run.
…it holds (#4849) * fix(lib): let a killed child actually die before anyone deletes what it holds Windows has been failing one shard per lane=all dispatch for weeks, and the shard number kept moving while the case family did not. The repository already wrote the right conclusion down once - the blame moved, the cause did not - and #4825 was the attempt at it. It did not land the fix. #4825 replaced "kill and resolve in the same tick" with "kill, wait up to two seconds, then abandon". That is the same false ownership contract on a slower clock. When the grace expired the caller was told its child was gone, cleanup removed the directory, and Windows returned EPERM because icacls still held it: EPERM: operation not permitted, rm '...\Temp\opencodex-test-vwyZZv\tmp\ocx-management-auth-kgvXCT' (fail) codex app-server restart routes ride the management gate > the data-plane token does not authorize the restart route [15367.90ms] A handle-bearing caller now has no second deadline after the kill. The child's actual exit is the only release signal, because it is the only thing that is true. Only the icacls runner takes that path; windows-user-principal passes 0 and still abandons immediately, since its PowerShell lookup sits on the startup critical path and holds no path anyone removes. The icacls runner's own outer watchdog still bounds the caller, so nothing can wait forever - the reap continues in the background and teardown drains it through flushRequiredSubprocessReapsForTests. The regression test no longer sleeps. A manual deadline seam orders kill against exit directly, so it proves the sequence rather than waiting for it. The Desktop copy-coherence probes are the same mechanism seen from the other end. Those scenarios perform different numbers of secure writes, each able to launch PowerShell or icacls on Windows, and that contention was spending a deadline the probe shares. The generated child now installs the existing synthetic principal and ACL runner seams before it loads any client module. Files, SQLite, locking, rotation, recovery and Desktop projection stay real; only the ACL subprocesses become synthetic, and an ACL descendant can no longer outlive the parent's kill holding a temp path. Causation was checked before writing any of this. Across 48 lane=all dispatches that completed all six Windows shards without PR #4836, the EPERM class appears in 3 and the probe-timeout class in 1, so both predate that PR and neither is attributable to it. No local suite, focused test, typecheck, build, or install was run. * fix(windows): separate "may I stop waiting" from "is it safe to delete" The first attempt made `waitForSubprocessExit` wait for a killed child to really exit, and Windows still failed the same way. The abandonment had simply moved up a layer. `awaitAsyncIcaclsRunner`'s belt fires at timeoutMs + kill grace + 250ms. That margin was sized against the old bounded 2-second grace, so once the inner wait became unbounded the belt was once again the deadline: on a stalled icacls it resolved timedOut while the child was alive, the caller logged "continuing without it", and teardown deleted a directory icacls.exe still held. [opencodex] ACL hardening timed out (ETIMEDOUT) - transient icacls stall EPERM: operation not permitted, rm '...\tmp\ocx-management-auth-Ge98cW' (fail) codex app-server restart routes ride the management gate > both routes reject an unauthenticated caller and a cross-origin caller [15261.56ms] The 15.26s there is removeTreeWithRetry's ladder exhausting, not a probe deadline. These are two different questions and they now have two different answers. The belt still releases its caller, so a genuinely stuck child cannot hang startup, shutdown or uninstall - that bound is the whole reason the belt exists. But when it gives up it registers the outstanding reap against the target path, and code that is about to REMOVE something must settle that separately: a test tree awaits flushWindowsSecretAclReapsBeforeRemoval, the async writer leaves a residual temp rather than racing an unlink against a live handle, and uninstall refuses promptly rather than waiting, because handing a stuck child the power to hang `ocx uninstall` would give back the bound we just protected. The holder was confirmed rather than assumed: the failing proxy is in-process and auth rejection stops the restart child from spawning, so icacls.exe is the only child holding the fixture path. removeTreeWithRetry stays. It is a fair accommodation of a short filesystem release race; it should just never have been absorbing a live child. No local suite, focused test, typecheck, build, or install was run.
Each ACL-hardened write on Windows ran the icacls sequence twice against the same file. atomicWriteFile hardens the temp while it is still empty, so it is never readable by another principal, and hardens it again before the rename. The content written in between moves the success memo's freshness component (ctimeNs, which libuv reports from the NTFS ChangeTime), so the second call missed the memo and reapplied the ACL the file already had: /grant:r, /inheritance:r, /remove:g, plus up to three /findsid probes. After the content write the writer now re-asserts that the path still resolves to the object its descriptor holds, then re-attributes the memo to that same object, so the pre-rename harden resolves through the memo instead of repeating the mutation. Both calls stay required: true and still fail the write closed; re-attribution moves only the freshness, and only for an unchanged object. Windows also stops taking the chmod on that path. There it sets the read-only attribute rather than the DACL, so it is not the secret boundary, and its ChangeTime bump is what retired the memo a line later. POSIX keeps it. A cold ocx start writes ocx.pid and runtime-port.json through this writer, so those two writes go from four icacls sequences to two.
…it holds (lidge-jun#4849) * fix(lib): let a killed child actually die before anyone deletes what it holds Windows has been failing one shard per lane=all dispatch for weeks, and the shard number kept moving while the case family did not. The repository already wrote the right conclusion down once - the blame moved, the cause did not - and lidge-jun#4825 was the attempt at it. It did not land the fix. lidge-jun#4825 replaced "kill and resolve in the same tick" with "kill, wait up to two seconds, then abandon". That is the same false ownership contract on a slower clock. When the grace expired the caller was told its child was gone, cleanup removed the directory, and Windows returned EPERM because icacls still held it: EPERM: operation not permitted, rm '...\Temp\opencodex-test-vwyZZv\tmp\ocx-management-auth-kgvXCT' (fail) codex app-server restart routes ride the management gate > the data-plane token does not authorize the restart route [15367.90ms] A handle-bearing caller now has no second deadline after the kill. The child's actual exit is the only release signal, because it is the only thing that is true. Only the icacls runner takes that path; windows-user-principal passes 0 and still abandons immediately, since its PowerShell lookup sits on the startup critical path and holds no path anyone removes. The icacls runner's own outer watchdog still bounds the caller, so nothing can wait forever - the reap continues in the background and teardown drains it through flushRequiredSubprocessReapsForTests. The regression test no longer sleeps. A manual deadline seam orders kill against exit directly, so it proves the sequence rather than waiting for it. The Desktop copy-coherence probes are the same mechanism seen from the other end. Those scenarios perform different numbers of secure writes, each able to launch PowerShell or icacls on Windows, and that contention was spending a deadline the probe shares. The generated child now installs the existing synthetic principal and ACL runner seams before it loads any client module. Files, SQLite, locking, rotation, recovery and Desktop projection stay real; only the ACL subprocesses become synthetic, and an ACL descendant can no longer outlive the parent's kill holding a temp path. Causation was checked before writing any of this. Across 48 lane=all dispatches that completed all six Windows shards without PR lidge-jun#4836, the EPERM class appears in 3 and the probe-timeout class in 1, so both predate that PR and neither is attributable to it. No local suite, focused test, typecheck, build, or install was run. * fix(windows): separate "may I stop waiting" from "is it safe to delete" The first attempt made `waitForSubprocessExit` wait for a killed child to really exit, and Windows still failed the same way. The abandonment had simply moved up a layer. `awaitAsyncIcaclsRunner`'s belt fires at timeoutMs + kill grace + 250ms. That margin was sized against the old bounded 2-second grace, so once the inner wait became unbounded the belt was once again the deadline: on a stalled icacls it resolved timedOut while the child was alive, the caller logged "continuing without it", and teardown deleted a directory icacls.exe still held. [opencodex] ACL hardening timed out (ETIMEDOUT) - transient icacls stall EPERM: operation not permitted, rm '...\tmp\ocx-management-auth-Ge98cW' (fail) codex app-server restart routes ride the management gate > both routes reject an unauthenticated caller and a cross-origin caller [15261.56ms] The 15.26s there is removeTreeWithRetry's ladder exhausting, not a probe deadline. These are two different questions and they now have two different answers. The belt still releases its caller, so a genuinely stuck child cannot hang startup, shutdown or uninstall - that bound is the whole reason the belt exists. But when it gives up it registers the outstanding reap against the target path, and code that is about to REMOVE something must settle that separately: a test tree awaits flushWindowsSecretAclReapsBeforeRemoval, the async writer leaves a residual temp rather than racing an unlink against a live handle, and uninstall refuses promptly rather than waiting, because handing a stuck child the power to hang `ocx uninstall` would give back the bound we just protected. The holder was confirmed rather than assumed: the failing proxy is in-process and auth rejection stops the restart child from spawning, so icacls.exe is the only child holding the fixture path. removeTreeWithRetry stays. It is a fair accommodation of a short filesystem release race; it should just never have been absorbing a live child. No local suite, focused test, typecheck, build, or install was run.
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Every ACL-hardened write on Windows ran the icacls mutation sequence twice against the same file, and this is a production path: a cold
ocx startpublishesocx.pidandruntime-port.jsonthroughatomicWriteFileafter the listener binds.atomicWriteFilehardens the temp while it is still empty — so it is never readable by another principal between creation and the first byte — and hardens it again before the rename. Both calls arerequired: true. The content written in between moves the success memo's freshness component insrc/lib/windows-secret-acl.ts, which isctimeNs, and libuv reportsst_ctimon Windows from the NTFS ChangeTime. So the second call missed the memo and reapplied the ACL the file already had:/grant:r,/inheritance:r,/remove:g, plus up to three/findsidprobes when/remove:greports non-zero.After the content write the writer now re-asserts that the path still resolves to the object its descriptor holds, then re-attributes the memo to that same object through the new
reattributeHardenedSecretPath. The pre-rename harden resolves through the memo instead of repeating the mutation. Windows also stops taking thechmodon that path: there it sets the read-only attribute rather than the DACL, so it is not the secret boundary, and its ChangeTime bump is what retired the memo a line later. POSIX keeps thechmodand is unchanged.Concrete cost. Per hardened write on Windows, icacls invocations go from 6 to 3 (from 12 to 6 when
/remove:greports non-zero and the three/findsidprobes run). The two writes a coldocx startperforms after binding go from 4 mutation sequences to 2. PowerShell spawns are unchanged at one per process.Which of the four candidate directions this takes, and why not the others
Taken: direction 4, collapsing the double harden — but by making the second call a memo hit, not by deleting it. The call stays, stays
required: true, and performs the full sequence whenever attribution cannot be proven. The pre-write harden is kept: the window it closes is real.Direction 1, memoize the account SID per process, is already implemented.
cachedIdentityinsrc/lib/windows-user-principal.tsis process-wide and is consulted beforetimeoutMson both the sync and async paths, and the async path additionally single-flights. A successful lookup costs one PowerShell spawn per process, not one per harden. No change was needed.Direction 2, a native token lookup instead of PowerShell, is not shipped. It is reachable — the repository already uses
bun:ffiforGetSystemDirectoryW— but it cannot be validated on a non-Windows workstation, and its failure mode is not a fallback.runIcaclsgrants the returned principal Full Control and then removes inheritance, so a wrong SID either hands the secret to another account or strands the file with no usable ACE, which is exactly the hazard the no-name-fallback rule inwindows-user-principal.tsexists for. It saves one spawn per process; that is not worth shipping blind.Direction 3, skipping a path whose ACL is already compliant, already exists and is deliberately off.
existingAclAlreadyCompliantlanded indd3ff4231b(#2963) behindOPENCODEX_ACL_VERIFY_EXISTING=1, anddevlog/_fin/260830_release_readiness_train/050_wp5_issue_1298_acl_proof.mdrecords why the default is off: a parser false-positive could expose credentials. Flipping that default is a maintainer decision about parser trust, not a cost fix, so this PR does not touch it. Operators who have it on already get the double harden collapsed to one read.Security accounting
Worst case if the comparison is wrong. The memo is refused, not wrongly satisfied, in every direction the code can be wrong about: no memo, an unreadable stat, or a different
dev:inoall retire the entry and the pre-rename harden runs the full sequence. A refusal costs exactly the work this PR removes. Nothing relaxesrequired: true; a hardening failure still throws and the write still fails closed, with the temp scrubbed and unlinked.Why a secret cannot become readable by another principal. The ACL is applied to the empty temp before any content exists, and it is applied to the same object that is renamed into place — that is what the second descriptor/path identity assertion proves, and it fails the write closed if it cannot. Writing data does not alter a DACL.
The honest cost is stated in the code:
PathObservationdocuments that freshness also moves when permissions change, and re-attribution cannot tell a data write from a DACL change, so a DACL change landing inside the caller's own content write is absorbed rather than forcing a re-harden. Two things bound that. First, detection is relocated, not removed — every permission change after the re-attribution still moves ctime, still misses the memo, and is still hardened in full; there is a regression test for exactly that. Second, consider who can be inside the absorbed window at all. Once the first harden has run, the DACL is an explicit owner-only ACE with inheritance removed, so no other principal can open the file forWRITE_DAC. The one principal who could still rewrite it is one holding a handle opened before the harden, and Windows preserves the access granted to an open handle — that principal can rewrite the DACL after any later harden and after the rename, on the same object. A second mutation pass never bounded that capability; it stripped an ACE the holder could immediately re-add. Declining to repeat it therefore removes no guarantee anyone had.Files changed
src/lib/windows-secret-acl.ts— memo stores thePathObservationinstead of a joineddev:ino:ctimeNsstring, so object and freshness stay separately askable; newreattributeHardenedSecretPath.src/config/atomic-write.ts— post-write identity assertion and re-attribution in both temp writers; nochmodon the Windows branch of both default harden closures; a module-localsetWindowsHardeningForTestsseam whose untouched default is the previousprocess.platform === "win32"gate.tests/windows/windows-acl-start-cost.test.ts— new, withscripts/test-layout/layout.jsonandtests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.jsonentries.structure/runtime.md,structure/config.md— the owning docs forsrc/config/atomic-write.ts.The new tests live in their own file rather than in
tests/windows/windows-secret-acl.test.tsbecause that file is on the file-size ratchet baseline at 2310 lines and growing it failsfile-size-ratchet.Verification
No local test suite, focused test, typecheck, build, or install was run for this change. Verification is static reasoning plus hosted GitHub Actions CI. All evidence below is at head SHA
f4b10c4aa5496edb08e44f935481f4177c66e8b4.Pull-request aggregate — run 35142055301 (attempt 2):
ci= success. Every job green: changes, select windows runner, test 1/4–4/4, storage policy, api usage, gates, macos 1/2, macos 2/2, keyring macos/ubuntu/windows, docker smoke, npm-global macos/ubuntu/windows.macos controlandplatform-windowsare skipped by design —platform-windowsis gated onworkflow_dispatch, so a pull request never runs Windows. Attempt 1 was cancelled whenmacos 2/2stalled insidetests/codex-integration/; attempt 2 ran the same commit and passed.Windows — dispatched twice at the same SHA because the leg is gated off pull requests.
tests/clients/client-connect.test.ts(rotateandcommit-lostin "Desktop copy coherence across client lifecycle") hit the 15 s child-process deadline inrunDesktopLifecycleScenario.tests/server/server-management-auth.test.ts, "the data-plane token does not authorize the restart route") failed onEPERM: operation not permitted, rmwhile removing its temp tree inremoveTreeWithRetry.The blame moved between runs while the change did not, which is the signature
tests/helpers/test-budget.tsalready describes for this leg ("a run of windows-latest failures kept blaming a different test each time. The blame moved; the cause did not"). Neither failing test touches this change: one is bounded byINTERNAL_DEADLINE_MSon a spawnedbun testchild, the other is the documented Windows temp-removalEPERM.This change's own tests passed on Windows in both dispatches (
tests/windows/windows-acl-start-cost.test.ts, shard 1/6, jobs 104971744013 and 104983103630), each case in 1–2 ms.Contention forensics for the windows 3/6 failure. Comparing every test present in both that shard and an all-green baseline (
1504caaa83, run 35134620067) at >200 ms, the ratio distribution is median 0.90, p75 1.36, p90 2.36, max 10.03. The slowest ratios are unrelated to ACL hardening —ocx init piped stdin10.03×, Remote Workspace hub WebSocket 9.46×, Codex Log Guard reclaim 5.28×, Codex autostart shim 5.98×. The two failing cases sit at 4.68× and 5.01×, inside that tail rather than above it, and the shard's wall time was 1398 s against the baseline's 1130 s. On the two all-green baselines the same four cases ran 3171/3265 ms, 3048/2836 ms, 3278/2891 ms and 6662/3059 ms against the same 15 s deadline — a 2.3–5× margin, not a marginal one.Static checks performed instead of a local run:
OPENCODEX_ACL_VERIFY_EXISTINGgate, the/findsidbranch that only runs when/remove:gfails,assertPrivateTempDescriptor's POSIX0o600check, andrecordOwnedConfigPathignoring destinations outside the config root.tests/windows/windows-secret-acl.test.tsstill finds exactly twoopenSync(path, "wx", 0o600)call sites inatomic-write.ts.src/config.tsdoes not re-export it.Ablation, reasoned statically for each behavioural test: reverting the re-attribution makes the two
atomicWriteFilecases observe six icacls verbs instead of three; reverting the freshness half of the memo comparison makes "freshness moving again after re-attribution still forces a full harden" observe three instead of six. Neither case waits on a clock. Freshness is modelled through thesetStatForTestsseam precisely so these assert this module's attribution rule rather than a volume's timestamp resolution, which on a coarse-resolution filesystem could let two adjacent operations share a tick.Unresolved risk — two Windows CI flake classes observed at this head
Both were observed at
f4b10c4aa5and neither is attributed to this change; the contention forensics are in Verification above. Recorded here so the next lane starts from evidence rather than from zero. The host is separately dispatchinglane=allondev(5d98281eea), which does not contain this change, to confirm both classes reproduce without it.Class A —
client-connect"Desktop copy coherence" child-probe timeoutWhere. Run 35148850553, job
104971744046(windows 3/6).Passing siblings in the same describe on that run:
recover-both14838.82 ms,recover-current11328.70 ms,normal failed candidate9689.79 ms,recover-backup8500.21 ms,same-old7052.39 ms.Failing operation.
tests/clients/client-connect.test.ts:1187—spawnSync(process.execPath, ["test", "--preload", …, fixturePath], { timeout: INTERNAL_DEADLINE_MS, killSignal: "SIGKILL" }). The child was killed at 15 s, so it wrote no{"fixtureResult":…}marker, so the category fell through tochild_failedat:1195. The signal is the diagnosis being lost, not the cause.Hypothesis — a misclassified budget, plus two deadlines racing.
INTERNAL_DEADLINE_MSis 15 000 ms andtests/helpers/test-budget.tsdefines it as "a deadline inside a test, for an await that would otherwise hang forever", adding "keep these at least a few times under the surrounding budget". It is used here for a real childbun testprocess. The constant for that category isSPAWN_BUDGET_MS— 90 s on Windows, and its comment says why: "the leg runs four Bun pools on one runner, and the first child spawned in a file pays a cold start the later ones do not". The same file already usesSPAWN_BUDGET_MSfor its other spawn-based cases at:549and:584; this family is the inconsistency. Worse, the identical 15 000 ms also bounds the generated fixture's ownbun testcase at:1180, so inner and outer deadlines race and whichever fires first decides whether the failure is diagnosable.Why it is contention, not a regression. On the all-green baselines the same four cases ran 3171.42 / 3048.52 / 3278.82 / 6662.30 ms (run 35139132889 @
44de45dfdc, job104938976212) and 3265.52 / 2836.47 / 2891.07 / 3059.59 ms (run 35134620067 @1504caaa83, job104923799425) — a 2.3–5× margin against the same 15 s bound. On the failing shard, unrelated spawn-bound tests ran up to 10.03× slower while the median across 693 shared tests was 0.90.Concrete budget-category correction. Order the three bounds strictly, so the innermost always reports first and every failure is categorized instead of a blind kill:
bun testcaseclient-connect.test.ts:1180INTERNAL_DEADLINE_MSSPAWN_BUDGET_MSspawnSynctimeoutclient-connect.test.ts:1187INTERNAL_DEADLINE_MSSPAWN_BUDGET_MS + INTERNAL_DEADLINE_MStest.eachcase budget:1202--timeout 60000)SPAWN_BUDGET_MS + 2 * INTERNAL_DEADLINE_MSThis invents no tuned number; it applies the existing spawn constant and spaces the layers by the existing internal deadline. It meets both halves of the standard in
test-budget.ts: the spawned child is the scenario, and the assertions are on the fixture's returned state, so reverting "Desktop settles before commit" still fails regardless of budget. It was deliberately not applied in this PR — it is outside this lane's write scope and sets flake policy beyond it.Class B —
EPERMtemp-tree removal, already named in the sourceWhere. Run 35152226272, job
104983103569(windows 2/6).Failing operation. The
afterEachatserver-management-auth.test.ts:234(if (testHome) removeTreeWithRetry(testHome)). The 15 367 ms case duration is almost entirelyREMOVE_RETRY_BUDGET_MS(15 000 ms,scripts/test-temp.ts:33) being spent on a 50 ms→250 ms doubling ladder beforeremoveTestTempTreerethrows. The failing case name is incidental: it is simply the test whose teardown ran.Hypothesis — a live
icacls.exestill holding the directory, and this class is not independent of Class A's runner load or of this PR's subject.src/config/paths.ts:31starts a fire-and-forget optional flight,hardenSecretDirAsync(dir, { required: false }), tracked inconfigDirHardeningFlights. The doc onflushConfigDirHardening(src/config/paths.ts:61) states the consequence directly: "The flight spawnsicacls.exe, which holds the directory open until it exits. Windows file locking is mandatory, so anything that removes or renames that directory after a 'clean' shutdown — a test fixture teardown, an uninstaller, a home move — gets EPERM/EBUSY unless the process that started the child also waits for it." Onlyserver.stopdrains it, atsrc/server/index.ts:799.src/lib/bounded-subprocess.ts:20-40records the same failure with the same fixture prefix and three previous fixes: "#4789 blamed the removal retry budget…; #4796 gave it a 15s exponential schedule; a later change awaited the hardening flight from the test hook. Windows shard 1/6 failed identically through all three… run 35108652486 burned the full 15s budget and still threwEPERM … rm ocx-management-auth-fDchUb, with twoACL hardening timed out (ETIMEDOUT) - transient icacls stalllines logged beside it."The occurrence above is the same signature —
ocx-management-auth-*, full budget burned, icacls stall lines beside it — and it is the fourth attempt's aftermath:e2304ce0e3("wait for a killed subprocess to die before abandoning it", #4825) is the tip ofdevthis branch is based on, so that fix is present and the class still recurs. The reason it can is stated in that same comment: "abandonment is still the fallback".waitForSubprocessExitkills at the deadline and abandons afterSUBPROCESS_KILL_GRACE_MS(2 000 ms), and a child that has already blown a 30 s harden budget is precisely the one that will not die inside 2 s. An abandoned-but-liveicacls.exekeeps the handle, and no drain can recover it.Two consequences worth naming for whoever takes this: the remaining exposure is proportional to how many icacls children are started, which is what this PR reduces per write; and a fix that bounds the removal or the drain cannot close it, because the holder outlives both. The lever is either not starting the child, or not letting an abandoned child keep a handle on a tree someone is about to remove.
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