Revision 1 rejected on five findings, all upheld.
1. The >6s selector could not have captured the failure. Both
reproducing binaries finish in ~5.19s INCLUDING the 5s timeout
(:3097, :3131), so the failing launcher lives about 5.1s. This also
falsifies my earlier retraction, which had argued the instance "must
live >=8s" --- so the "mechanism located" claim is NOT refuted by
that argument. It stays unproven for a different reason: the suite
spawns launchers from five call sites, so command line alone cannot
attribute one to this test. Key on the PID the test records.
2. Diagnostics rewritten to DISCRIMINATE blocked delivery, inherited
ignore, and an escaped process group: before-and-after snapshots for
test parent / launcher / probe, per-thread SigBlk from
/proc/<pid>/task/*/status, SigPnd/ShdPnd, and PID/PPID/PGID/SID.
Relatedly, "two processes with default disposition" is withdrawn ---
SIG_IGN is inherited across fork and survives exec, so absence of
handler code says nothing about runtime disposition, and inherited
ignore is the leading hypothesis precisely because the source is
silent. Revision 1 contradicted its own hypothesis.
3. Counts corrected: 119 green result summaries and TWO red binaries,
not "119 binaries green, one red". Reductions are now enumerated
R1-R10 and F1-F5 with command, run count and log each, preserved off
the tmpfs --- /tmp is a tmpfs and these were nearly lost mid-lane.
4. Acceptance contract corrected: A2 now requires three consecutive
green runs on the reviewed fixed head of this branch, not on main,
which is unobtainable before approval and merge; journey step 12(a)
"closing is clean" is named, since revision 1 reasoned from grade
movement which §20 warns against; and A5 is explicitly conditional
on D4, with bet 1 restated as a bet --- the witness uses a wrapper
and headless probe, not the real GUI path.
5. Portability closed: this branch now tracks
githubsucks/gpu-probe-sigint-teardown, and panel-mapping-generation
was pushed to 16cf3a2 so its retraction travels.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
`ctrl_c_on_launcher_group_does_not_reach_spawned_daemon` fails in gate
stage `sweep-crdt` with "child did not exit within 5s". It is
PRE-EXISTING on main --- 72da24a fails it in a clean worktree with its
own target dir --- so while it reds, no branch can present a green
sixteen-stage gate, main included. §5b is held behind this lane.
Framing revision 1, and it proposes NO FIX, because the mechanism is not
known. What it does instead is fix the shape of the problem so the next
attempt is not another guess:
- Ground truth, cited: neither binary handles signals. `run_gpu`
(src/main.rs:324) blocks in `command.status()` with no handler, and
grepping all of pmacs-gpu/src for signal machinery returns nothing.
The probe polls at 50ms. Two processes with default SIGINT
disposition should both die at once --- this deepens the puzzle
rather than explaining it, and the framing says so.
- Ruled out by measurement, with the method for each: load, tmpfs
(tested by experiment, not argument), leaked daemons, inotify,
--workspace feature unification, and any specific preceding test.
- The reduction paradox stated as the problem's real shape: 5/5 in
the full sweep, 0/N in every reduction, including all 37 preceding
targets plus the suite.
- One retracted claim kept as a warning, because it was mine: the
"mechanism located" report described a healthy teardown. The
sampler behind it caught 394 launchers with a 5s maximum lifetime
while the failing instance must live 8s or more.
The first step is diagnostic only: an instrument keyed on the FAILING
instance --- launchers outliving ~6s --- capturing /proc/<pid>/status
signal masks, since SigIgn survives fork and exec while handlers do not.
Acceptance criteria are written now so the fix cannot quietly become
"make the test pass": a demonstrated mechanism with a mutation-tested
witness, sweep-crdt green three consecutive times, the reduction paradox
explained or recorded as unexplained, and no deadline raised or test
skipped.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
Levi Neuwirth