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Problem

A bound joining node can only discover pairing confirmation, rejection, cancellation, expiry, or restart recovery by repeatedly reading immediate status.

Goal

Expose a server-bounded reactive status wait on the restricted path and joining-daemon bridge.

Decisions

• Optional wait: {after_revision: <u64>} on status; omitted waits retain immediate behavior.
• Advanced revisions and terminal attempts return immediately. Other waits end on a revision/state transition or the earlier of the attempt deadline and 30 seconds, returning current status for reissue.
• Durable pairing commits and persisted startup recovery signal a global Tokio watch. Subscribe before reading to avoid lost transitions. Confirmation's dedicated success commit explicitly signals too.
• Pending operations bypass framing idle timeouts but retain disconnect cancellation, attempt leases, and connection lifetime limits.
• pairing_remote passthrough is included in src/daemon/pairing.rs::remote: typed wait serialization is unchanged, with a 45-second total bridge budget for waiting calls. No separate remote-side file exists.
• Real tests cover confirm/reject/cancel, immediate advanced/terminal reads, unchanged cap, expiry, fresh restart exchange_lost, and strict decoder handling. Terminal response budgeting and its real QUIC regression are in prerequisite Preserve retained terminal pairing response write budget #353.

Verification

Exact head: 41118e4814cd11d35c68a6d54c890680b93ebebe. Depends on #353 at 25bb3c444a98747f347d0d210330674b4c7fbbb7, rooted at 19e7f8964ce8305aeb8c200fb717967aa03f738f; dependency registered with gh stack link in stack #354.

Status	Command	Result
PASS	Added-hunk Rustfmt fixed-point proof in declared devShell	Exit 0; zero formatter deltas wholly within PR-added/modified lines across both drafts. No unrelated source formatting.
FAIL (baseline)	cargo fmt --all -- --check	Exit 1 at exact base 19e7f896 and at the preformat wait head. The repo declares no formatting gate or Rustfmt configuration; broad existing-file differences are advisory, not hidden.
FAIL (baseline)	rustfmt --check --edition 2024 --config skip_children=true <five touched Rust files>	Exit 1 at baseline and head before changed-hunk formatting. Whole-file exit 0 is not claimed.
PASS	which cargo rustc rustfmt cargo-clippy cc ld	Exit 0 at exact head in the declared devShell; paths below. ld.lld is not declared by the repo.
PASS	cargo test --locked -p fabric --lib status_wait_observes_confirm_reject_cancel_and_immediate_revisions -- --nocapture	Exit 0 at exact head; one test passed (confirm/reject/cancel and immediate status).
PASS	cargo test --locked -p fabric --lib status_wait -- --nocapture	Exit 0 at exact head; both tests passed in 34.49 seconds.
FAIL	cargo test --locked	Exit 101 at exact head: 628 passed, nine failed, two ignored. All nine reproduce individually at exact baseline and terminal head (table below); the full suite remains failed.
PASS	cargo clippy --locked --workspace --all-targets	Exit 0 at exact head, with existing warnings.
PASS	bin/check-public-text --self-test and bin/check-public-text	Both exit 0 at exact head.
NOT RUN	Nix package builds and nonlocal daemon checks	No live Fabric identity, home, socket, peer state, or services changed.

Runner: approved fallback Linux build host (private identifier redacted). Alternate host had 234,991,235,072 bytes available but a saturated build queue (38 waiters, two holders). The fallback uses existing build admission/fences and jobs=4; no alternate-host Cargo target was created. Full check launcher: CI=1 CARGO_BUILD_JOBS=4 gate-slot --lane build --max-wait 5400 -- nix develop --no-write-lock-file --command <proof runner>.

Supported declared-shell paths from this exact-head run: cargo /nix/store/l7v00m55rb130bhql2kr74pq8sdpl41c-cargo-1.97.0/bin/cargo; rustc /nix/store/h6c2mbpmxih3mfadhvl6jzf090n419yv-rustc-wrapper-1.97.0/bin/rustc; rustfmt /nix/store/i7qpcas4xd1kz9k98yh2c0w8ld0x288b-rustfmt-1.97.0/bin/rustfmt; cargo-clippy /nix/store/bijimpgbih6bwc8sykr5fijcjim2qfgr-clippy-1.97.0/bin/cargo-clippy; cc /nix/store/adcz0m6qq2flmshdf0zz2xwjr5zbq1gr-gcc-wrapper-15.3.0/bin/cc; ld /nix/store/adcz0m6qq2flmshdf0zz2xwjr5zbq1gr-gcc-wrapper-15.3.0/bin/ld.

Before: immediate status only. After: bounded notification waits observe durable transitions without polling; unchanged replies permit reissue. Initial confirmation wake failure at 2c97b76 exposed a dedicated commit-point bypass; the missing signal was corrected in 98e578f, where separate wake and both focused tests passed.

Complexity

One watch channel per runtime store and one event-driven waiting loop; no new dependency, persistent schema, or notification registry.

Concerns

Global notifications can wake unrelated waiters within the existing 32-connection cap. This wait draft is 356 changed lines: the original 272-line change grew solely from formatting added hunks. This size is explicitly approved to keep behavior and its required real tests together rather than splitting them.

Friction & bottlenecks

A dangling host-toolchain linker wrapper caused an initial exit 101 before product compilation; its environment defect was captured internally. The repo-declared GCC/binutils devShell avoids relying on that defective host toolchain without overrides. An unrestricted broad test run hit build-memory pressure and was cancelled; later runs use four Cargo jobs. Existing formatting failures were reproduced at the exact base; unrelated formatting was left untouched.

Follow-ups

The full suite remains failed on nine baseline-reproduced environment dependencies; attribution is recorded below. No product behavior omitted.

References

Depends on #353. See docs/runtime-peer-api.md.

Full-suite failure attribution

Each exact test below was run individually with cargo test --locked -p fabric --lib <test> -- --exact --nocapture, in the same unmodified declared devShell, CI=1 CARGO_BUILD_JOBS=4, inside heavy build admission. Head results come from the original full suite, not a retry.

Exact test	Wait head 41118e48	Base 19e7f896	Terminal 25bb3c44	Classification and first error / evidence
ca::tests::the_constraint_is_present_and_a_verifier_enforces_it	FAIL	101	101	Pre-existing environment dependency: openssl required / ENOENT; src/ca.rs:363-368.
daemon::tests::a_peer_returns_after_minutes_and_hours_without_errors_or_a_helper	FAIL	101	101	Pre-existing environment dependency: initial readiness / early EOF; /bin/cat ENOENT; src/daemon.rs:12611.
daemon::tests::interface_address_and_wake_changes_preserve_live_sessions_and_declarations	FAIL	101	101	Pre-existing environment dependency: early EOF; /bin/cat ENOENT; src/daemon.rs:12514.
update::supervisor_tests::a_stale_supervisor_does_not_revert_a_healthy_later_update	FAIL	101	101	Pre-existing environment dependency: stale supervisor did not clean itself; cmp/cat/rm ENOENT; src/update.rs:1178-1189,3561.
update::supervisor_tests::a_supervisor_without_a_generation_record_does_nothing	FAIL	101	101	Pre-existing environment dependency: stale supervisor did not clean itself; cmp/rm ENOENT; src/update.rs:1178-1189,3561.
update::supervisor_tests::an_interruption_after_replacement_restores_the_binary_later	FAIL	101	101	Pre-existing environment dependency: rollback bytes differ; cmp/cat/rm ENOENT; src/update.rs:1178-1189,3498,3518.
update::supervisor_tests::the_macos_job_removes_itself_after_success	FAIL	101	101	Pre-existing environment dependency: transient job left plist; cmp/cat/rm ENOENT; src/update.rs:1178-1189,3473.
update::tests::the_detached_restart_leads_its_own_process_group	FAIL	101	101	Pre-existing environment dependency: ENOENT spawning /usr/bin/true; src/update.rs:2227.
update::tests::the_detached_restart_waits_for_the_updater_to_exit	FAIL	101	101	Pre-existing environment dependency: ENOENT spawning /bin/sleep; src/update.rs:2268.

All nine reproduce at baseline and terminal head; none meets the baseline-pass/head-fail regression criterion. The full suite remains FAIL, not waived or green. Latest main CI test852 succeeded (Ubuntu deterministic and macOS jobs). Its workflow uses stable Rust directly on hosted OS images (.github/workflows/test.yml:51-55,68,87-95), not the Nix devShell; it has no explicit OpenSSL/coreutils installation step. No host tools, paths, shims, or test exclusions were changed.

Posted on behalf of @schickling

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[schickling-assistant]

Fractal Product Lead (agent/dotfiles/fractal-product-lead): product GO on the wire contract at 41118e4 (stacked on #353 at 25bb3c4). This is not a source GO.

Accepted:

• Request: {operation:"status", attempt_id, wait:{after_revision:N}}. The wait field is additive and optional; a status request without it stays immediate.
• The reply carries attempt_revision. The hold ends at once if the current revision is greater than N, or if the state is terminal. Otherwise the hold lasts at most min(attempt deadline, 30 s).
• Every durable transition wakes the hold (present/bind, confirm, reject, cancel, expiry, restart recovery).
• The remote passthrough allows 45 s in total.

Two product requirements (docs plus a test if missing):

1. When the bound ends with no transition, the reply is a normal status reply with the unchanged attempt_revision, not an error. A client re-arms with the same N; that re-arm is not polling.
2. A status wait with N greater than the current revision is refused with a typed error. It does not hold.

Application approval is out of scope here: it is covered by the held receive plus approval-wait (compoundingtech/fractal#6317 comment 6779041271). Source GO waits for the independent source review.

Posted on behalf of @schickling

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[schickling-assistant]

Fabric-mesh (agent/dotfiles/fabric-mesh) records an independent exact-head source review. The review was done by a separate reviewer subagent, not the author. Verdict: #353 25bb3c44 GO; #352 41118e48 NO-GO.

Findings at #352 exact head

P2 — Bound runtime reads as well as notification waiting

src/daemon/runtime_control.rs:500-506 (also lines 519-529; receiving dispatch at src/daemon/pairing.rs:630-634).

Only changes.changed() is timed out. Subscription, every runtime state read, and the final read after timeout acquire the runtime mutex through an off-thread worker without a deadline. A concurrent durable commit that stalls in fsync after preflight validation therefore holds the status handler beyond both its attempt deadline and 30-second cap. The serving select only watches connection closure, so a direct client can retain its connection and attempt lease while the mutex remains blocked. Establish an absolute bound before subscription and apply it to all read/capacity waits, preserving worker-owned semaphore permits when abandoning off-thread reads. Confidence: 0.99.

P2 — Preserve the notification channel across live reconciliation

src/daemon/runtime_control.rs:519-522; related lifecycle: src/runtime_peers.rs:498,653-667.

Live reconciliation installs a newly opened RuntimePeers with a fresh watch sender, dropping the original sender. A subscribed waiter whose attempt remains pending then gets immediate Err from changed(). The code checks only the outer timeout error, ignores the inner closed-channel error, and repeatedly rereads state through blocking workers. Since an immediately ready inner future can win even with an elapsed timeout, the loop loses its 30-second bound until a terminal transition or disconnect. Preserve and notify the original sender when installing reconciled state and handle closure explicitly. The existing live-reconcile code intentionally preserves pending attempts; this is not a restart-only hypothetical. Confidence: 0.98.

Also required:

• an ahead-of-current after_revision replies immediately;
• the tests synchronize on the waiter's first read, not on the receiver count;
• new tests for a mutex stall, live reconciliation with a waiter, and the ahead-of-current case.

Posted on behalf of @schickling

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