Merges fix/1945-adopt-hashes 1a190090. A new follower (one per link) waits for the grants part's key to catch up before
its first write, so a restart after take-over never writes the controller's list first. A refused or ended watch is
tried again on link.Backoff, the have says why it is not watched, and the key last heard, kept beside the node's state,
holds meanwhile. While the grants part's list is followed, the bus module's composition is applied with the list on the
machine in place of the controller's. The grants list is never handed to the vault. Pins mesh-sdk c2a410bb.
On the node whose compositions carry the bus's list, the engine also watches mesh-grants' key user-list.sealed. While it
says follow grants, the object it names is read by name, opened with this machine's sealing key, checked against the
key's digest and the guard, and written to the same file at 0600 only when its digest differs; the bus reloads it
itself. The have says which list is followed and this machine's sealing key, which the grants part seals to.
The follower's test waits for its watch to catch up before a later put, which raced under load. Pins mesh-sdk 175a5567.
The vault holds no value for the controller's own account, the node accounts and the enrolled devices, so it cannot
hash them, and take-over waits on their hashes. The bus node's engine is the one part that has them, in the list the
bus loaded. Its follower of the user list now puts every loaded user's bcrypt hash in the bus module's have, sealed to
the vault's own key (mesh-sdk delivery.AccountsHanded), so of every reader of the have bucket the vault alone opens
it; the clear part says only the list's digest, the key's fingerprint and how many users. The vault's key is heard from
its answer to node-key, which the engine already asks at start; a first or changed key looks at the list again. It is
sealed again only when the list on the machine or the vault's key changes; a refused list hands the list kept on the
machine. The vault takes from it only the users it holds no value for.
Also: the user list follower's test sent its later puts before the watch had handed the keys there before it, so two
of its cases failed on main whenever the goroutine started late; the feed now says when the watch began.
mesh/check pass 99285cb080db on 1195cf45971e | unit 303 run, 1080 kept, 5 skipped | integration 306 run, 1082 kept, 4 skipped | over bound: unit (slow…
The bus node's engine writes the bus user list (ADR 0547 bridge); each write makes the bus reload its accounts, and
for about three seconds every JetStream request meets no responders. An apply that failed then was kept failed until a
key changed (mesh-vault on novox, 2026-10-25 23:04:24), holding every module that needs the secret seat. A transient
bus failure is now retried with a backoff (2 s, 5 s, 15 s, 60 s, then every 5 min), the have saying retrying meanwhile;
after the engine writes the user list, the transiently failed modules are tried again once the reload is over. A have
write that met it is written again the same way. shorten keeps the head and the tail, the cause.
mesh/check pass 5e71ab6ae612 on d75c66dc7e27 | unit 303 run, 1077 kept, 5 skipped | integration 306 run, 1079 kept, 4 skipped | over bound: unit, inte…
B1: the controller sends the user list by digest (over 64 KiB), so its users are counted from the list as resolved, not
from the composition's inline content, which is empty then.
R1: a composition signed for another node or module than its key names is no source.
R2: a list without the controller's own user, or one that drops more than half the users of the file on the machine,
is not written; the have says why and the file on the machine is kept.
The list reached the bus only through a want of the bus module, which nobody writes (ADR 0539 §15): on 2026-10-25 it
stood from 11:23 to 20:50 and was put back by hand. The node agent now follows its composition bucket for the newest
signed composition carrying the user list, writes that file alone through the apply's file step when it differs
(mode 0600, read back, recorded as the module's), moves nothing that reads it (the bus module's entrypoint reloads the
server in place), never goes back to an older list, looks again after every apply of the bus module, and says source,
revision, wanted and written digests, users and any error in the bus module's have (mesh-sdk UserListWritten).
Read with mesh-delivery-view.node_haves (module nats); the bus's own nats_user_can says in_force once it reloaded.
ace's filling refused mesh-build-go's files as not named as filled 32 s before
its want arrived; after the apply that named them nothing asked again, and the
runtime crash-looped on its missing broker credential. The filling now keeps
what it refused or failed and, when the node agent says a module's apply or
removal settled (agent.Env.Settled, called once what runs holds it), touches its
write socket if the declaration now names such a path, names the provisioner's
account, or a write had failed; the client watches that socket and fills every
module again. Said in the journal each time.
mesh/check pass b32a27c115a2 on 0dfbe1a179f2 | unit 292 run, 1060 kept, 5 skipped | integration 295 run, 1062 kept, 4 skipped | over bound: unit (slow…
The facts look inside an apply runs while the module is still applying and judges nothing; the
running write then left xorg running and unknown until the five-minute statement, holding every
x11-display consumer behind it. The running write now nudges the health loop, which looks and says
at once. A declaration's report gets the same motion and composition check, and a removed module
leaves nothing marked unjudged (review of fix 15).
mesh/check pass 1bdbf47ffa83 on 0dfbe1a179f2 | unit 302 run, 1044 kept, 5 skipped | integration 305 run, 1046 kept, 4 skipped | over bound: unit (slow…
A unit or container of the node's own that shares only its name with a
module's resource is not the module's: dropped, its record became an orphan
the apply removes, stopping the module's unit (1945/AC17).
The node's own composition and a module's both declared the same files, and
the joined declaration was refused whole ("2 resources declare X"): the
node's own copy is now left out when joining and at the node's own apply, and
said once (1945/AC17). A module still running from the kept declaration now
carries its filled paths, so the filling no longer refuses them as not named
as filled (1945/AC18).
mesh/delivery-group group fix/r6-node-composition held: a member is held: novox/mesh-sdk@10b6e202320f (merged without a passing check: only a person decides wh…
mesh/merge-gate head 150fadfe8bed merged into trunk 619e14aa8e57 — pass: group fix/r3e-before-the-gate composed: every machine composes with the change as …
The set of modules this process wrote lives in memory, so a node-engine restarted before the apply that drops a module never wrote that module's removal. The report now names the modules the kept declaration held before, and they are removal candidates.
The node-engine reads a resource's module and a declaration's builds, says it does in every report (reads_modules), groups the apply's outcome per module with every failing resource named, and writes have.<node>.<module> and have.<node>.node to the bucket only when a value differs, never ahead of or in place of the report (novox/hq ADR 0429 section 4).
mesh/merge-gate head dae79c76434c merged into trunk cd13f7726ef0 — pass: builds mesh-host → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes wi…
The merge check's build container has no pacman, so the acceptance test now stubs it and names the host it was built for, as other command tests do; nothing in the node-engine itself changes.
mesh/merge-gate head d237dee4c9e3 merged into trunk cd13f7726ef0 — pass: builds mesh-host → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes wi…
A directory or archive resource carries `unknown` (move-out, module, program) and `knows`. For move-out under a home, every look moves each path the declaration does not know into ~/.local/state/mesh-moved/<module>/<time>/, the list written before each move, without following a link, a young path waiting, a socket or pipe left and reported, nothing made when nothing moved, and another file system refused. Reviewed in two rounds.
mesh/merge-gate head 62af89f85d0d merged into trunk 1a2677882380 — pass: builds mesh-host → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes wi…
Every 15 s the failed-units look read the own manager of every account
the declaration creates, and reading one is a login that starts it: six
module accounts' managers on the control node started and stopped all
day, most of its journal. A look only reads (ADR 0240 rule 6) and never
asks an account's manager (ADR 0177).
An account's manager is read now only when the declaration places a
user-scoped unit in it, and only after the machine's own manager says
user@<uid>.service is active, as the apply asks before it. A manager not
running is said away in the units statement, with no failed units; in
liveness its units read unknown with the apply's words, never down. The
operator's account on a desktop is still read while logged in, since a
module places a user unit there (issue 315's Razer daemon stays said).
mesh/merge-gate head b9a293f8c8bc merged into trunk 0e92ef3d1b21 — pass: builds mesh-host → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes wi…
mesh/merge-gate head cb7b71dcc568 merged into trunk 12bc6a56a38a — pass: builds mesh-host → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes wi…
A port reached from local-network is admitted from the private networks the machine is attached to, and only the machine can say which those are. Every network on a link facing outside is said among its facts, and a change is said at the next reconcile.
mesh/delivery-group group feat/335-a-busy-container-is-replaced-when-idle rejected: its order contradicts itself: novox/mesh-catalog@190608193764, novox/mesh-c…
A send that replaced the build agent killed the check it ran, and the queue
started it again elsewhere (issue 594). A container may now declare busy; the
node-engine asks it before replacing it, applies everything else, says the
wait, and replaces it on the first idle pass or at the bound, kept across
restarts (novox/hq ADR 0335).
mesh/merge-gate head c7b534a08c98 merged into trunk 6fe82c61bd32 — pass: builds mesh-host → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes wi…
A module's own directories need setgid so what is made beneath keeps its own group,
and a mode of 2750 refused the whole declaration while every apply dropped the bit:
a directory's mode now carries setgid (never setuid or sticky), set, kept and said.
A tool runner's account that is missing or root's failed the whole apply and dropped
the library's outcome: it is now a warning, said as runner:<module> or
runner:library:<name>. And a runner that leaves a group is taken out before the
resources apply, so its unit is restarted in that apply to lose it.
A joining module's own directories belong to its own group, and its tools run in the
tool runner, which could not read them. An identity may now name the tool runner's
account: the engine puts it in mesh-<module> as it puts it in a library's group,
says the change as identity:<module> for the runner's unit to restart once, takes
it back when no identity names it, and refuses an account that is missing or root's.
The engine states contract 7.
usermod --gid regroups every file under an account's home, and accounts were made
with / as home: they now have /nonexistent, and an older account's home is moved
there (without its files) before its group changes. A sub-path asked for later that
holds data not in the group waits for the operator as the root would. The take act
gives the group to hardlinked files an account owns (the *arr apps' downloads) and
leaves root's; a file's setuid or setgid bit the regroup takes is never put back, so
no setgid file hands out the library's group; each is counted. An apply no longer
waits for a running take walk.
ADR 0328 supersedes ADR 0325: shared data is a library with one home, kept usable by
its group rather than by ACL entries. The engine now makes each library's group and
each module's user in its libraries' groups; keeps a library's root and requested
sub-paths in its group with group write and setgid on its home, making missing
sub-paths as the root is; waits for the operator's word before touching a root that
holds data, and on the take act walks it by descriptor (no link, same filesystem,
bounded and resumed, files with other names left); holds the containers of a library
whose disk or mount is not there; and puts the tool runner's account in the group.
The ACL keeping, mask repair and watch are gone; an access is again as before ADR 0325.
The controller cannot know the operator's account's uid, names an access by its
declared id (which holds a slash), and should not parse words. A tool runner's
account may now come by name alone and is read here (refused when absent or root's,
its uid said in the access's listing); the take act matches the declared id exactly;
an access wait says its reason (keep or disk) and, for a filesystem that refuses
ACLs, whether the take act can enable them.
mesh/merge-gate head d12bba01090d merged into trunk dd9ab7927d96 — pass: builds mesh-host → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes wi…
The build seat runs merge-check as root, so every folder a test made was root's
data, which is never kept (§12), and 28 tests failed for that alone. A test's
folders now stand for an operator's: run as root, they are given to nobody before
they are judged. The root rule is unchanged.
mesh/merge-gate head c85c2804a010 merged into trunk dd9ab7927d96 — pass: builds mesh-host → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes wi…
mesh/repo-check head c85c2804a010 merged into trunk dd9ab7927d96 — fail: its merge-check.sh failed: --- FAIL: TestAnAccessTheMeshMayNotKeepYetIsSaidAsAWait…
The engine delivers before the controller half, and today's controller sends no
identities, users or taken. Keeping now starts only for an access whose folder has
users, or a declaration with identities; every other access is mounted when present
and refused when absent as on main, with nothing made, kept, held or judged. A
leftover whose walk could not run says why, not always that its disk is away.
A name read that timed out gave an empty name, which differed from the recorded one
and so reset the record: a folder kept while empty asked again, a warranted one was
walked again. An unnamed filesystem now leaves the folder exactly as it is, the
access is said not known for that look, and it resumes once it is named.
A container was still created over an unmounted mount point, so its writes landed on
the filesystem below; a folder moved to another disk was kept on the old warrant; and
entries left by a drop or a move that could not run lived only in a log line. Every
container mounting an access whose disk is away now waits, the warrant holds only for
the filesystem it was carried out on (the wait names the new one, path-free), entries
left on a filesystem are recorded per mount and taken out when it is back, and every
leftover is said as unhealthy until it is. A hung stat is shared per path, and a
widened mask takes from other entries only the bits it adds.
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