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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 start publishes ocx.pid and runtime-port.json through atomicWriteFile after the listener binds.

atomicWriteFile hardens 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 are required: true. The content written in between moves the success memo's freshness component in src/lib/windows-secret-acl.ts, which is ctimeNs, and libuv reports st_ctim on 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 /findsid probes when /remove:g reports 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 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 the chmod and is unchanged.

Concrete cost. Per hardened write on Windows, icacls invocations go from 6 to 3 (from 12 to 6 when /remove:g reports non-zero and the three /findsid probes run). The two writes a cold ocx start performs 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. cachedIdentity in src/lib/windows-user-principal.ts is process-wide and is consulted before timeoutMs on 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:ffi for GetSystemDirectoryW — but it cannot be validated on a non-Windows workstation, and its failure mode is not a fallback. runIcacls grants 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 in windows-user-principal.ts exists 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. existingAclAlreadyCompliant landed in dd3ff4231b (#2963) behind OPENCODEX_ACL_VERIFY_EXISTING=1, and devlog/_fin/260830_release_readiness_train/050_wp5_issue_1298_acl_proof.md records 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:ino all retire the entry and the pre-rename harden runs the full sequence. A refusal costs exactly the work this PR removes. Nothing relaxes required: 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: PathObservation documents 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 for WRITE_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 the PathObservation instead of a joined dev:ino:ctimeNs string, so object and freshness stay separately askable; new reattributeHardenedSecretPath.
  • src/config/atomic-write.ts — post-write identity assertion and re-attribution in both temp writers; no chmod on the Windows branch of both default harden closures; a module-local setWindowsHardeningForTests seam whose untouched default is the previous process.platform === "win32" gate.
  • tests/windows/windows-acl-start-cost.test.ts — new, with scripts/test-layout/layout.json and tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json entries.
  • structure/runtime.md, structure/config.md — the owning docs for src/config/atomic-write.ts.

The new tests live in their own file rather than in tests/windows/windows-secret-acl.test.ts because that file is on the file-size ratchet baseline at 2310 lines and growing it fails file-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 control and platform-windows are skipped by design — platform-windows is gated on workflow_dispatch, so a pull request never runs Windows. Attempt 1 was cancelled when macos 2/2 stalled inside tests/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.

  • 35148850553: windows 1/6, 2/6, 4/6, 5/6, 6/6 success; windows 3/6 failure — two cases in tests/clients/client-connect.test.ts (rotate and commit-lost in "Desktop copy coherence across client lifecycle") hit the 15 s child-process deadline in runDesktopLifecycleScenario.
  • 35152226272: windows 1/6, 3/6, 4/6, 5/6, 6/6 success; windows 2/6 failure — a different test in a different file (tests/server/server-management-auth.test.ts, "the data-plane token does not authorize the restart route") failed on EPERM: operation not permitted, rm while removing its temp tree in removeTreeWithRetry.

The blame moved between runs while the change did not, which is the signature tests/helpers/test-budget.ts already 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 by INTERNAL_DEADLINE_MS on a spawned bun test child, the other is the documented Windows temp-removal EPERM.

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 stdin 10.03×, 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:

  • Traced every new test through the real production code by hand for call counts, including the OPENCODEX_ACL_VERIFY_EXISTING gate, the /findsid branch that only runs when /remove:g fails, assertPrivateTempDescriptor's POSIX 0o600 check, and recordOwnedConfigPath ignoring destinations outside the config root.
  • Confirmed the source oracle in tests/windows/windows-secret-acl.test.ts still finds exactly two openSync(path, "wx", 0o600) call sites in atomic-write.ts.
  • Confirmed no production caller sets the new test seam and that src/config.ts does not re-export it.

Ablation, reasoned statically for each behavioural test: reverting the re-attribution makes the two atomicWriteFile cases 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 the setStatForTests seam 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 f4b10c4aa5 and 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 dispatching lane=all on dev (5d98281eea), which does not contain this change, to confirm both classes reproduce without it.

Class A — client-connect "Desktop copy coherence" child-probe timeout

Where. Run 35148850553, job 104971744046 (windows 3/6).

2026-09-16T20:55:12.7872812Z ClientStateProbeError: Client state probe timed out (status=null, signal=SIGKILL, category=child_failed)
      at runDesktopLifecycleScenario (D:\a\opencodex\opencodex\tests\clients\client-connect.test.ts:1196:160)
2026-09-16T20:55:12.7906195Z (fail) Desktop copy coherence across client lifecycle > rotate settles Desktop before reporting committed [15285.63ms]
2026-09-16T20:55:54.2856989Z (fail) Desktop copy coherence across client lifecycle > commit-lost settles Desktop before reporting committed [15329.32ms]

Passing siblings in the same describe on that run: recover-both 14838.82 ms, recover-current 11328.70 ms, normal failed candidate 9689.79 ms, recover-backup 8500.21 ms, same-old 7052.39 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 to child_failed at :1195. The signal is the diagnosis being lost, not the cause.

Hypothesis — a misclassified budget, plus two deadlines racing. INTERNAL_DEADLINE_MS is 15 000 ms and tests/helpers/test-budget.ts defines 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 child bun test process. The constant for that category is SPAWN_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 uses SPAWN_BUDGET_MS for its other spawn-based cases at :549 and :584; this family is the inconsistency. Worse, the identical 15 000 ms also bounds the generated fixture's own bun test case 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, job 104938976212) and 3265.52 / 2836.47 / 2891.07 / 3059.59 ms (run 35134620067 @ 1504caaa83, job 104923799425) — 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:

bound location from to
fixture's own bun test case client-connect.test.ts:1180 INTERNAL_DEADLINE_MS SPAWN_BUDGET_MS
parent spawnSync timeout client-connect.test.ts:1187 INTERNAL_DEADLINE_MS SPAWN_BUDGET_MS + INTERNAL_DEADLINE_MS
each test.each case budget the describe at :1202 implicit (CI --timeout 60000) SPAWN_BUDGET_MS + 2 * INTERNAL_DEADLINE_MS

This 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 — EPERM temp-tree removal, already named in the source

Where. Run 35152226272, job 104983103569 (windows 2/6).

2026-09-16T21:40:06.9370293Z [opencodex] ACL hardening timed out (ETIMEDOUT) — transient icacls stall; … (probe failed) — continuing without NTFS ACL harden
2026-09-16T21:40:07.4743094Z [opencodex] Config mutation coordination directory ACL hardening did not complete; continuing without it. ACL hardening timed out (ETIMEDOUT) …
2026-09-16T21:40:23.6961626Z EPERM: operation not permitted, rm 'C:\Users\RUNNER~1\AppData\Local\Temp\opencodex-test-vwyZZv\tmp\ocx-management-auth-kgvXCT'  (errno -4048)
      at removeTestTempTree (scripts\test-temp.ts:195:7)
      at removeTreeWithRetry (tests\helpers\remove-tree.ts:27:3)
      at <anonymous> (tests\server\server-management-auth.test.ts:234:17)
2026-09-16T21:40:23.7018576Z (fail) codex app-server restart routes ride the management gate > the data-plane token does not authorize the restart route [15367.90ms]

Failing operation. The afterEach at server-management-auth.test.ts:234 (if (testHome) removeTreeWithRetry(testHome)). The 15 367 ms case duration is almost entirely REMOVE_RETRY_BUDGET_MS (15 000 ms, scripts/test-temp.ts:33) being spent on a 50 ms→250 ms doubling ladder before removeTestTempTree rethrows. The failing case name is incidental: it is simply the test whose teardown ran.

Hypothesis — a live icacls.exe still 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:31 starts a fire-and-forget optional flight, hardenSecretDirAsync(dir, { required: false }), tracked in configDirHardeningFlights. The doc on flushConfigDirHardening (src/config/paths.ts:61) states the consequence directly: "The flight spawns icacls.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." Only server.stop drains it, at src/server/index.ts:799.

src/lib/bounded-subprocess.ts:20-40 records 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 threw EPERM … rm ocx-management-auth-fDchUb, with two ACL hardening timed out (ETIMEDOUT) - transient icacls stall lines 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 of dev this 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". waitForSubprocessExit kills at the deadline and abandons after SUBPROCESS_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-live icacls.exe keeps 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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  • Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
  • Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
  • Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved Windows secret-file protection during writes by applying ACL hardening consistently before and after content updates.
    • Prevented redundant hardening operations when the file remains associated with the same underlying object.
    • Added safeguards to detect file replacement or identity changes before completing a write.
    • Failed Windows hardening operations now stop the write without leaving a destination file.
  • Documentation

    • Updated runtime and configuration documentation to describe Windows ACL handling and write verification.

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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Windows ACL write flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
ACL observation memo and reattribution
src/lib/windows-secret-acl.ts
ACL state now stores structured object and freshness observations. reattributeHardenedSecretPath refreshes the memo for the same object and retires it when observation fails or identifies a different object.
Atomic write hardening integration
src/config/atomic-write.ts
Synchronous and asynchronous writes use an override-aware Windows branch, recheck identity after writing, transfer hardening state, and keep POSIX permission handling separate.
Windows ACL cost validation and documentation
tests/windows/windows-acl-start-cost.test.ts, scripts/test-layout/layout.json, tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json, structure/config.md, structure/runtime.md
Tests verify ACL command counts, memo invalidation, sync and async writes, and hardening failures. Layout fixtures and documentation describe the new coverage and write behavior.

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  participant atomicWriteFile
  participant WindowsSecretACL
  participant FileSystem
  participant icacls
  atomicWriteFile->>WindowsSecretACL: harden temporary path
  WindowsSecretACL->>icacls: run ACL hardening commands
  icacls-->>WindowsSecretACL: return success or failure
  atomicWriteFile->>FileSystem: write content
  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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지금 dev 끝은 #4825(e2304ce, waitForSubprocessExit 킬 그레이스) 이고, 패키지는 여전히 2.58.0 입니다. 이 PR(#4836, 헤드 f4b10c4)은 Windows에서 시크릿 temp를 atomicWriteFile 로 쓸 때마다 icacls 변이 시퀀스가 두 번 돌아가던 생산 경로 비용을 한 번으로 줄입니다. 손대는 핵심은 src/lib/windows-secret-acl.ts 와 src/config/atomic-write.ts 이고, 새 테스트 tests/windows/windows-acl-start-cost.test.ts 와 structure 문서(structure/config.md, structure/runtime.md)가 같이 갑니다. types.ts/config.ts 분할 캠페인과 무관해서 닫을 이유가 없고, 같은 주제의 열린 중복 PR도 안 보입니다(#4834 는 테스트 예산/픽스처 쪽이지 이 ACL 메모 재귀속이 아닙니다).

문제는 간단합니다. atomicWriteFile 은 temp가 비어 있을 때 한 번 굳히고(다른 주체가 첫 바이트 전에 읽지 못하게), rename 직전에 또 한 번 굳힙니다. 둘 다 required: true 입니다. 그런데 그 사이에 내용을 쓰면 Windows에서 libuv가 보고하는 ctimeNs(NTFS ChangeTime)가 움직여서, 성공 메모의 freshness가 어긋나고 두 번째 호출이 메모 히트가 아니라 전체 /grant:r + /inheritance:r + /remove:g(그리고 /remove:g 가 실패하면 /findsid 최대 세 번)를 다시 돌립니다. 이미 있는 ACL을 다시 바르는 셈입니다. 차가운 ocx start 가 리스너 bind 뒤 ocx.pid 와 runtime-port.json 을 이 writer로 쓰니, 시작 경로에서 변이 시퀀스가 4번 → 2번으로 줄어드는 체감이 있습니다.

선택한 방향은 '두 번째 harden 호출을 지우지 않고 메모 히트로 만들기'입니다. 내용 쓰기 뒤 디스크립터/경로 동일성을 assertPrivateTempDescriptor 로 다시 확인하고, 디스크립터를 닫은 뒤 reattributeHardenedSecretPath 로 같은 객체에 freshness만 다시 붙입니다. 객체가 바뀌었거나 stat이 안 되면 메모를 지워서 다음 harden이 풀 시퀀스로 돌아가게 합니다. 메모 값 타입도 문자열 dev:ino:ctimeNs 에서 PathObservation 자체로 바꿔 object/freshness를 따로 물을 수 있게 했습니다. Windows 분기에서는 chmod 도 빼는데, 거기서는 읽기 전용 속성만 건드리고 DACL이 아니며 ChangeTime을 올려 메모를 바로 깨뜨리기 때문입니다. POSIX의 mode 경계는 그대로입니다.

보안 회계도 본문에 길게 적혀 있고, 읽기 기준은 맞습니다. 비교가 틀리면 메모를 '잘못 만족'시키는 쪽이 아니라 거부하고 풀 harden으로 돌아가며, required: true 는 그대로라 실패하면 쓰기 자체가 닫힙니다. 흡수되는 창(내용 쓰기 중 DACL 변경을 freshness 이동과 구분 못 함)에 대해서도, harden harden 뒤에는 다른 주체가 WRITE_DAC 로 열 수 없고, harden 핸들을 가진 쪽은 두 번째 변이 패스 뒤에도 같은 객체를 다시 쓸 수 있다는 이유로 '반복이 주던 보장이 원래 없었다'고 설명합니다. 재귀속 뒤 freshness가 또 움직이면 풀 harden이 다시 돈다는 회귀 테스트도 있습니다. 네 후보 중 SID 프로세스 메모는 이미 있고, native 토큰 조회는 검증 불가·실패 모드가 fallback이 아니라 보류, OPENCODEX_ACL_VERIFY_EXISTING 기본 ON은 파서 신뢰 문제라 이번 비용 수정 범위 밖으로 둔 판단도 일관됩니다.

테스트는 windows-secret-acl.test.ts 파일 크기 래칫(2310줄) 때문에 새 파일로 분리했고, layout/expected에도 넣었습니다. setWindowsHardeningForTests 는 windowsSecretAclApplies() 를 재사용하지 않는 로컬 시임이라, 다른 스위트가 setPlatformForTests("win32") 만 켜도 설정 쓰기에 icacls가 붙지 않게 했습니다. src/config.ts 재수출에도 안 넣었습니다. 본문이 로컬 테스트/타입체크/빌드를 안 돌렸다고 명시했고, 호스티드 CI는 이 웨이크 시점에도 여러 잡이 pending입니다. 정적 추적·ablation 논리는 꼼꼼하지만, 머지 버튼은 초록을 보고 누르는 게 맞습니다. 직접 lidge-jun perf 랜드이고 머지 트레인 잔여 원본 정리도 필요 없습니다.

라인 atomic-write.ts · carryHardenAcrossContentWrite - 재귀속을 디스크립터 closeSync 뒤(핸들 밖)에서 돌립니다. 주석대로 Windows가 열린 핸들 동안 새 ChangeTime을 path 조회에 안 올릴 수 있어서, 닫기 전에 메모를 갱신하면 다음 독자가 보는 시각과 어긋나 메모가 다시 빗나갈 수 있습니다. 의도는 맞지만, 이 순서가 깨지면(예: close 전에 재귀속) 비용 절감이 조용히 사라지므로 순서 계약을 테스트/주석으로 계속 지켜야 합니다.
라인 windows-secret-acl.ts · reattributeHardenedSecretPath - 파일 메모(hardenedPaths)만 다루고 디렉터리 메모(hardenedDirectories)는 건드리지 않습니다. 이번 호출자는 temp 파일이라 맞고, 나중에 디렉터리 쪽에도 같은 패턴을 붙일 때 대칭 API가 없다는 점만 알아두면 됩니다.
경로 atomic-write.ts · setWindowsHardeningForTests - 모듈 전역 오버라이드입니다. 새 테스트 afterEach 에서 null 로 되돌리므로 이 PR 안에서는 정리되어 있습니다. 다른 스위트가 이 시임을 쓰기 시작하면 afterEach 누락이 교차 오염을 만드니, 시임이 leaf에만 있고 facade 재수출이 없는 현재 계약은 유지하는 편이 좋습니다.
경로 CI / Verification - 본문이 로컬 실행 없음을 솔직히 적었고, 이 웨이크에서 gh pr checks 는 changes/hygiene/windows runner 선택 등이 pending, resolve-pr만 pass였습니다. 실패-닫힘(EICACLS)·한 시퀀스 고정·객체 교체 시 메모 폐기 케이스가 있으니, Windows/테스트 샤드 초록이 확인되면 머지 근거가 됩니다.

메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점

  • 내용 쓰기 창에 흡수되는 DACL 변경을 '반복 harden이 원래 막지 못하던 능력'으로 두고 이번 라운드에서 받아들일지, 아니면 파서 기반 OPENCODEX_ACL_VERIFY_EXISTING 기본값 논의와 같이 별도 보안 트레인으로 남길지.
  • 차가운 start에서 pid/port 두 번의 절감만으로 충분한지, 아니면 같은 writer를 쓰는 다른 핫 경로(인증/설정 저장)까지 벤치 숫자를 남긴 뒤 머지할지.
  • test(budget): restore the 45s spawn signal and stop hardening a disposable port #4834(픽스처가 atomicWriteFile ACL을 피하도록 rename으로 바꾼 테스트 예산 PR)와 머지 순서를 나란히 둘지. 서로 충돌하지는 않지만, Windows 시작/스폰 측정 창에서 ACL 비용이 동시에 빠지면 관측이 겹칩니다.

너의 추천
호스티드 CI(특히 Windows·테스트 샤드·hygiene/gates)가 초록이면 dev 에 머지하세요. 두 번째 harden 호출을 지우지 않고 메모 히트로 바꿔 비용을 줄이면서 required: true 실패-닫힘을 유지한, 범위가 선명한 생산 경로 perf입니다. types/config 분할과 무관하고 중복도 아니며, 추가 커밋 없이 머지 트레인이면 됩니다. 머지 후 남은 원본 PR 정리도 필요 없습니다(직접 lidge-jun 랜드).

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* It is the observation itself rather than a joined string so that the two
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P1 Badge 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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function carryHardenAcrossContentWrite(path: string): void {
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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
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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.
lidge-jun added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 17, 2026
…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.
agentHits pushed a commit to agentHits/opencodex that referenced this pull request Sep 17, 2026
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.
agentHits pushed a commit to agentHits/opencodex that referenced this pull request Sep 17, 2026
…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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