Run a verb from the controller's own running image, and refuse what it cannot run as a handover (hq issue 289)
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The witness moves a running build aside into a directory the controller's user
cannot enter, then deletes it; a verb exec'd from os.Executable() in that window
failed with permission denied. /proc/self/exe stays valid while the process lives.
A verb that still cannot start, or arrives while the controller stops, is refused
with link.ErrHandingOver and marked retry: handing-over.
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jochen
2026-10-07 02:45:09 +02:00
parent 9d15f3a39e
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@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
"context"
"encoding/json"
"errors"
"fmt"
"log"
"strings"
"sync"
@@ -177,3 +178,24 @@ func recentOf(l *CallLog) []Call {
out, _ := l.Recent()
return out
}
// A call refused because its controller is handing over says so in a mark as well as in words, so the
// caller asks once more without parsing a sentence (novox/hq issue 289).
func TestAHandoverRefusalIsMarkedRetryable(t *testing.T) {
l, a := NewCallLog(), newAnswers(t)
l.serveCall("mesh-controller", "rotate", nil, "_INBOX.x.9", func(context.Context, json.RawMessage) (any, error) {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("%w: stopping", ErrHandingOver)
}, a.respond, nil)
got := a.only()
if got["retry"] != RetryHandingOver || !strings.Contains(fmt.Sprint(got["error"]), "handing over") {
t.Fatalf("answered %v", got)
}
l, a = NewCallLog(), newAnswers(t)
l.serveCall("mesh-controller", "rotate", nil, "_INBOX.x.10", func(context.Context, json.RawMessage) (any, error) {
return nil, errors.New("refused for its own reason")
}, a.respond, nil)
if _, marked := a.only()["retry"]; marked {
t.Fatal("an ordinary refusal was marked to be asked again")
}
}