library: the harness keeps the subscribers, and an id belongs to whoever opened it
Three services had each written the same thing and got it three different ways: input polled the process list to notice a dead subscriber, and only when someone else subscribed; the power service never noticed at all; the device manager noticed drivers but not subscribers. The harness owns the table now, driven by the events a protocol declares — it registers on the reserved verb, frames each event once, posts to everyone interested without waiting on any of them, and reclaims a slot when the kernel says its owner died. Interest masks moved to the envelope, so a subscriber that wants only mice asks the same way everywhere. Two consequences the plan had not foreseen. The device manager now hears a supervised child's death twice, once as its supervisor and once as a subscriber, so restart backoff counted every crash twice and gave up after half as many; it retires the id before counting. And the kernel's published exit table had eight slots for what is now six subscriptions in a plain boot, so it holds sixteen. The other half is a hole the design named early and left standing: a backend handed out a small integer and then honoured it from anyone. A process that guessed a file's node id read another client's file; a display layer had no owner at all, so any client could reconfigure or destroy any layer; a USB device token was never checked against the client that opened it. Each is now bound to the task that opened it, and a wrong owner gets exactly what an unknown id gets — the refusal must not become the oracle the identical answers elsewhere were designed to remove. Closing a file changed with it: it used to succeed unconditionally, which would have told a caller which ids existed. Suite 111/111, with a new case in which one process holds a file and a layer, hands both ids to a second process, and finds them untouched after that process has tried everything with them.
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@@ -326,6 +326,7 @@ pub fn build(b: *std.Build) void {
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if (test_case != null) for ([_][]const u8{
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"vfs-test", // the user-space VFS round-trip client
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"fat-test",
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"badge-scope-test", // the guessable-id probe: a second process names the first's node and layer
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"shared-memory-server",
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"shared-memory-client",
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"crash-test", // hellos to the device manager, then faults — drives the crash-loop cap
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