cbm_gbuf_dump_to_sqlite() emitted gbuf.dump regardless of the writer's
result, so a run that published nothing still logged node and edge counts
as if it had worked, and the failure reached the user only as the generic
"Pipeline failed. Check repo_path exists and contains source files."
The writer's temp -> final rename in publish_writer_output() returned a
bare ERR_WRITE_FAILED. #1628 taught cbm_rename_replace() to translate the
platform error into errno so callers could report why, and wired up the
stage -> final rename in pipeline.c. This is the other rename on that
path, and it is the one that runs first.
Preserve errno across the cleanup in every publish error branch. That
includes cbm_writer_open(), where the cleanup unlinks a file that was never
created: without the save it leaves ENOENT behind, so a directory that
denied the create is reported as a missing path — the #1620 case, stated
wrongly. Read the value in graph_buffer.c before the profiling macro can
clobber it, and report gbuf.dump_failed with the return code and that errno.
A sticky append failure clears errno rather than attach a reason it does not
have, and the field is omitted when there is none. No logging is added
inside internal/cbm/, which has none today.
Tests cover both halves: the dump reports a failure instead of a summary,
the writer names its truncation reason, and the publish rename's errno
survives a cleanup that itself fails.
Refs #1620, #2001.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012FxkVF773gDGNmBmsLnzN7
Signed-off-by: juan Carlos Estrada Montoya <junk151516@users.noreply.github.com>
