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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Daniel Samson
2026-08-01 09:05:26 +01:00
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@@ -658,6 +658,18 @@ CASES = [
"timeout": 150,
"expect": r"fat-test: rename ok",
"fail": r"fat-test: mutations FAILED|DANOS-TEST-RESULT: FAIL"},
# P4c: badge-scoped per-client ids. Two processes of one fixture, on the same
# boot: the owner holds a FAT node id and a compositor layer id, the intruder
# names both and must be refused — while its own node and layer, and the
# owner's after the attempt, keep working. Every refusal is paired with a
# control, so a provider that refused everything (or honoured everything)
# fails this case rather than passing it. Reuses the fat-mount build.
{"name": "badge-scope",
"build_case": "fat-mount",
"smp": 4,
"timeout": 150,
"expect": r"(?s)(?=.*badge-scope-test: ok)(?=.*badge-scope-test: owner intact)",
"fail": r"badge-scope-test: FAILED|DANOS-TEST-RESULT: FAIL"},
# Phase 2d: filesystem timestamps — a freshly-created file's mtime is a real
# current wall-clock time (stamped from the RTC), read back through stat.
{"name": "fat-mtime",