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Priority: P2 | Area: area:ipc | Labels: feat,P2 | Milestone: v0.1.0 | RFC: OQ-018 accepted IPC boundary | Task: CTX-0016

Summary

Shared Windows named-pipe transport consumed by bitty CTX-1405 (issues #2244/#2243):

• New bitty-ipc-winpipe crate: protected current-user-only DACL (O:<sid>D:P(A;;GA;;;<sid>)), post-create endpoint attestation (owner SID plus every ACE), PIPE_REJECT_REMOTE_CLIENTS, overlapped I/O with bounded read/write timeouts, and client/server process token SID queries. All unsafe lives in the private ffi module; the crate root denies unsafe_code.
• bitty-ipc-auth: Windows VerifiedPeer SID attestation (current_windows_user_sid, verify_windows_peer_for_connection); VerifiedPeer comparison now includes the SID on Windows.
• bitty-ipc-devtools: Windows serve path reuses the existing serve_connection_inner loop, so framing (256 KiB), continuation reassembly (1 MiB logical), RC-9 budget, timeouts, dispatcher, and scope checks are identical. Adds resolve_windows_pipe_path_from_env (instance-derived default, no hardcoded pipe name), bind_windows_pipe_listener, ServeContext::bind_connected_pipe, and serve_bound_pipe_connection_with_endpoint_budget.
• Windows tests: authenticated server/client roundtrip, ungranted debug.inspect denial, foreign-SID refusal, oversize-frame typed error, current-user recheck; platform-neutral pipe-name derivation and shared-bound tests.

No TCP, no allow-all fallback, no new authority. Non-Windows builds compile to an empty transport surface.

Verification

• just check (Linux): fmt + clippy -D warnings + workspace tests green.
• cargo +1.85 check --workspace --all-targets --locked (MSRV) green.
• cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc --locked -- -D warnings green; Windows runtime tests run in the Windows check and test CI job.
• cargo check --workspace --all-targets --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc green.

Consumer pin: bitty CTX-1405 will bump bitty-ipc to the merge commit after this lands.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added Windows named-pipe IPC support with current-user access protection and peer identity verification.
  • Added authenticated pipe listeners and connections with configurable read/write timeouts.
  • Integrated Windows transport with IPC and developer tools, including endpoint resolution and connection serving.
  • Added SID utilities and client/server identity checks.
  • Added validation for pipe names, connection limits, request sizes, and malformed endpoints.

• Documentation

  • Documented Windows named-pipe transport, authentication, security protections, and workspace integration.

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📝 Walkthrough

This change adds a Windows-only named-pipe transport with SID-based peer checks and bounded I/O. It connects the transport to authentication and devtools request serving, including endpoint resolution, binding, identity rechecks, and integration tests.

Changes: Windows named-pipe support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pipe contract and secured endpoints Cargo.toml, crates/bitty-ipc-winpipe/Cargo.toml, crates/bitty-ipc-winpipe/src/lib.rs, crates/bitty-ipc-winpipe/src/pipe.rs, crates/bitty-ipc-winpipe/src/ffi.rs	Adds the Windows-only transport crate, validated Sid and listener types, current-user-only security descriptors, endpoint attestation, remote-client rejection, and named-pipe creation.
Bounded connections and identity checks crates/bitty-ipc-winpipe/src/pipe.rs, crates/bitty-ipc-winpipe/src/ffi.rs	Adds shutdown-aware acceptance, bounded overlapped reads and writes, cancellation and drain handling, process identity queries, and client-side server SID checks.
Authentication and devtools serving crates/bitty-ipc-auth/*, crates/bitty-ipc-devtools/*, crates/bitty-ipc/*, ARCHITECTURE.md, README.md	Adds Windows SID verification, pipe endpoint resolution, connection-bound proofs, shared request serving, Windows-specific tests, crate wiring, and documentation updates.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant devtools_caller
  participant bind_windows_pipe_listener
  participant PipeListener
  participant ServeContext
  participant verify_windows_peer_for_connection
  participant serve_bound_pipe_connection_with_endpoint_budget
  participant shared_request_loop
  devtools_caller->>bind_windows_pipe_listener: bind pipe endpoint
  bind_windows_pipe_listener->>PipeListener: create listener
  PipeListener->>ServeContext: accept PipeConnection
  ServeContext->>verify_windows_peer_for_connection: verify client SID
  verify_windows_peer_for_connection-->>ServeContext: return VerifiedPeer
  ServeContext->>serve_bound_pipe_connection_with_endpoint_budget: serve bound connection
  serve_bound_pipe_connection_with_endpoint_budget->>shared_request_loop: dispatch framed requests and responses

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This change adds a Windows named-pipe transport with current-user-only access checks. In a narrow timing case, a read or write that hits its timeout can already have moved data. A read then loses those bytes, and a write is reported as failed after it was sent. Callers that keep using the connection after a timeout could see corrupted or duplicated frames. The fix is small and local. Otherwise the change looks ready to merge, with owner awareness of this follow-up.

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- Around line 16-18: Correct the architecture diagram by placing
bitty-ipc-winpipe above bitty-ipc-auth, or at the same level, so the dependency
direction matches the manifests. Also remove the completed “Windows named pipe
support in bitty-ipc-auth” future-work item.

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- Around line 401-404: Update the Windows proof binding in binding_matches and
matches_pipe_with to compare the retained probe handle’s connection identity,
using PipeConnection::same_connection (Arc::ptr_eq on inner) or the equivalent
existing identity mechanism, while retaining the client_pid comparison as an
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- Around line 516-561: Update the overlapped read, write, and accept_connection
operations to create a distinct manual-reset event per call and assign it to
OVERLAPPED.hEvent, keeping the event alive through completion. For every
GetOverlappedResultEx failure after ERROR_IO_PENDING, call cancel_and_drain
before returning, including timeout, broken-pipe, and other errors; preserve the
existing result classification after draining.
- Around line 626-635: Update the CreateFileW call in the pipe-opening code to
include SECURITY_SQOS_PRESENT and SECURITY_IDENTIFICATION alongside
FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED, importing both constants from
windows_sys::Win32::Storage::FileSystem. Preserve the existing open behavior
while enforcing identification-level client impersonation.
- Around line 449-458: Update the pipe connection flow around ConnectNamedPipe
to retry after ERROR_NO_DATA: disconnect the same handle with
DisconnectNamedPipe, honor shutdown, reset OVERLAPPED state, and retry. Also
handle ERROR_NO_DATA and ERROR_BROKEN_PIPE from GetOverlappedResultEx by
recycling the instance and retrying, while preserving existing success, pending,
and unrelated-error behavior; add DisconnectNamedPipe to the relevant Windows
pipes import.
- Around line 314-316: Update the invalid-handle error path in the Windows pipe
listener, including the corresponding path around the later instance check, to
map ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED to io::ErrorKind::AddrInUse when first_instance is
enabled. Preserve the original OS error for all other failures so
bind_windows_pipe_listener can report existing or foreign instances as
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