The native Windows soak could never start its server, so that gate had
never actually measured anything. The root cause was the harness, not the
daemon: an MSYS filesystem FIFO feeding a native Windows process delivers
empty stdin (reproduced 5/5), while a Bash anonymous coprocess carries the
full JSON-RPC initialize exchange to the same protected payload, and the
failing daemon log showed an orderly client disconnect rather than a
daemon-side eviction. The soak now uses a named coprocess on native
Windows only, duplicating its endpoints to stable fd3/fd4 and closing the
originals so closing fd3 still delivers EOF; POSIX keeps the FIFO path.
The coproc syntax sits inside eval because macOS system Bash 3.2 must
still parse this file even though only MSYS2 Bash 5 executes that branch.
With transport repaired the next exact failure surfaced: native Windows
Python cannot open an MSYS /c/... diagnostics path. Both consumers now
pipe the file through stdin, the pattern already established elsewhere in
the repo, and the soak recovery contract forbids reintroducing a direct
native-Python open.
Also on the release path:
- The smoke fixture server no longer fsyncs before atomically publishing
its port. This is ephemeral readiness signalling, not crash-durable
state, and the macOS Intel runner failed inside that durability sync.
When the contract does fail it now reports the observable state --
waited, exit status, port file, staged temp files, interpreter, startup
log -- because the previous verdict named nothing on the one runner we
cannot reproduce locally.
- The POSIX publication test hook no longer compiles into Windows builds,
fixing an exact -Werror unused-variable failure. The setter keeps a
parameter-consuming Windows stub because it is public API.
- The Wine leg assembles the real release layout (payload plus canonical
launcher) and version-checks both, running the launcher through cmd so
it has a Windows-visible parent. The unsupported Wine soak is removed:
Wine stays a fast compile/package/version check, and native Windows is
authoritative for daemon, locking, ACL and process-lifetime semantics.
- run.sh soak-windows routes to the native Windows VM, which validates the
payload, builds the protected per-user temp root, stamps ACLs, and
refuses success without a completion summary.
Signed-off-by: Martin Vogel <martin.vogel.tech@gmail.com>
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