fix(runtime): only named tenancies stamp the terminal record — anonymous churn must not evict it

Discovered wiring the bridge consult: with an unconditional stamp, the record
for the very death being raced was the shortest-lived data in the runtime.
Every green thread is a slot tenant, the free list is LIFO — so the slot a
named server's death frees is the first one recycled, and the next throwaway
exit (monitor holders, chain-runner work, anything) overwrote the record
before a raced watch could consult it. Deterministic bridge repro: the
corpse resolved fine, terminal_reason read None every time.

register_with now flags the tenancy (ever_named, reset at reclaim) before
the binding lands — set outside the registry lock, so no successfully
registered actor can die unflagged and a failed register's overshoot is
harmless — and finalize stamps only flagged tenancies. Watchable identities
are exactly the named ones (the bridge's pid-identity path deliberately
keeps Erlang's raw :noproc), so nothing consultable is lost.

Contract test updated: the three death modes now self-register; a new
anonymous control pins that unregistered deaths neither stamp nor evict.

src/monitor.rs

@@ -178,11 +178,13 @@ pub fn monitor<A>(target: Pid<A>) -> Monitor {
 }
 
 /// The terminal [`DownReason`] of the tenancy `target` names, if that tenancy
-/// is the *most recent* death of its slot: finalize stamps the slot with
-/// `(generation, reason)`, and the record survives reclaim and the next
-/// tenant's install, until that next tenant itself dies. `None` means the pid
-/// never lived, is still alive, or its record was overwritten by a later
-/// tenancy's death — callers fall back to `NoProc` semantics.
+/// ever registered a name and is the *most recent named* death of its slot:
+/// finalize stamps the slot with `(generation, reason)` for once-registered
+/// tenancies (anonymous green-thread churn does not stamp — nor evict), and
+/// the record survives reclaim and the next tenant's install, until the next
+/// *named* tenant of the slot itself dies. `None` means the pid never lived,
+/// is still alive, never held a name, or its record was overwritten by a
+/// later named tenancy's death — callers fall back to `NoProc` semantics.
 ///
 /// This exists for watch-installers that raced their target's death (bridge
 /// soak signature 4): a `NoProc` observed at install time can be upgraded to

src/registry.rs

@@ -388,6 +388,16 @@ pub(crate) fn register_with<M: Send + 'static>(
     tx: Sender<M>,
 ) -> Result<(), RegisterError> {
     with_runtime(|inner| {
+        // Stamp-eligibility for the terminal record (soak sig 4): flag the
+        // tenancy BEFORE the binding lands and outside the registry lock (no
+        // nesting), so no successfully-registered actor can die unflagged.
+        // A register that then fails leaves a harmless overshoot; a stale
+        // `me` is screened by the same live() the binding requires below.
+        if live(inner, me) {
+            if let Some(slot) = inner.slot_at(me) {
+                slot.cold.lock().ever_named = true;
+            }
+        }
         let mut reg = inner.registry.lock();
         if !live(inner, me) {
             return Err(RegisterError::NoProc);

src/runtime.rs

@@ -472,14 +472,24 @@ pub(crate) struct SlotCold {
     /// epoch-matched unpark.
     pub(crate) waiters: Vec<(Pid, u32)>,
     pub(crate) outcome: Option<Outcome>,
-    /// The slot's most recent *death*: `(generation, reason)`, stamped by
-    /// `finalize_actor` and deliberately never cleared — a new tenant's
-    /// install leaves it standing (it describes the previous tenancy), and
-    /// only the next death overwrites it. Read generation-matched via
+    /// The slot's most recent *named-tenancy* death: `(generation, reason)`,
+    /// stamped by `finalize_actor` — but only for a tenancy that ever
+    /// registered a name (`ever_named`) — and deliberately never cleared: a
+    /// new tenant's install leaves it standing (it describes the previous
+    /// tenancy), and only the next *named* death overwrites it. Anonymous
+    /// green-thread churn must not evict it: the free list is LIFO, so the
+    /// just-freed slot is the first recycled, and an unconditional stamp
+    /// made a watchable tenancy's record the shortest-lived data in the
+    /// runtime. Read generation-matched via
     /// [`terminal_reason`](crate::monitor::terminal_reason), so a watch that
     /// raced its target's death can recover the real down reason instead of
     /// a blanket `NoProc` (bridge soak signature 4).
     pub(crate) terminal: Option<(u32, DownReason)>,
+    /// This tenancy registered a name at least once — the stamp-eligibility
+    /// bit for `terminal` above. Set by `register_with` *before* the binding
+    /// lands (so no successfully-registered actor can die unflagged; a
+    /// failed register's overshoot is harmless), reset at reclaim.
+    pub(crate) ever_named: bool,
     pub(crate) supervisor_channel: Option<Sender<Signal>>,
     /// Watchers registered via `monitor()`, each tagged with its
     /// `MonitorId` so `demonitor` can remove exactly one. Each receives one
@@ -635,6 +645,7 @@ impl Slot {
                 waiters: Vec::new(),
                 outcome: None,
                 terminal: None,
+                ever_named: false,
                 supervisor_channel: None,
                 monitors: Vec::new(),
                 links: Vec::new(),
@@ -1637,6 +1648,7 @@ pub(crate) fn reclaim_slot(inner: &RuntimeInner, pid: Pid) {
         cold.waiters.clear();
         cold.monitors.clear();
         cold.links.clear();
+        cold.ever_named = false;
         slot.reset_counters();
         slot.stop_ptr.store(std::ptr::null_mut(), Ordering::Release);
         // The generation bump IS the reclaim: every stale pid is dead from
@@ -1678,9 +1690,16 @@ fn finalize_actor(inner: &Arc<RuntimeInner>, pid: Pid, outcome: Outcome) {
         cold.outcome = Some(joiner_outcome);
         // Terminal record (soak sig 4): stamped before the generation ever
         // bumps, under the cold lock, so a reader that resolved this pid can
-        // recover the reason after the slot moves on. Overwritten only by the
-        // slot's next death.
+        // recover the reason after the slot moves on — but only for a
+        // tenancy that ever held a name. The free list is LIFO, so the slot
+        // this death frees is the very next one recycled; if every green
+        // thread's exit stamped too, the churn behind any real workload
+        // would evict a watchable tenancy's record in well under the race
+        // window this exists to cover. Overwritten only by the slot's next
+        // *named* death.
+        if cold.ever_named {
             cold.terminal = Some((pid.generation(), down_reason));
+        }
         slot.stop_ptr.store(std::ptr::null_mut(), Ordering::Release);
         // Done is published under the cold lock, so join's
         // check-Done-or-register-waiter (also under it) can never miss: it

tests/terminal_outcome_after_death.rs

@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ impl GenServer for Filler {
 #[derive(Debug)]
 struct Observed {
     exit_reason: Option<DownReason>,
+    anon_reason: Option<DownReason>,
     panic_reason: Option<DownReason>,
     stopped_reason: Option<DownReason>,
     live_reason: Option<DownReason>,
@@ -83,25 +84,48 @@ fn terminal_record_recovers_the_reason_a_raced_watch_lost() {
 
     // Tiny slab: prompt slot recycling for the re-tenancy phase.
     init(Config::exact(2).max_actors(32)).run(move || {
-        // --- Plain actors: one record per way of dying. -------------------
-        let h = smarm::spawn(|| {});
+        // --- Registered plain actors: one record per way of dying. The
+        // record is named-tenancy-only, so each actor self-registers a
+        // throwaway channel before dying; the anonymous control below pins
+        // the complement.
+        let h = smarm::spawn(|| {
+            let (tx, _rx) = smarm::channel::<()>();
+            let _ = smarm::register(smarm::Name::<()>::new("terminal_probe_exit"), tx);
+        });
         let pid_exit = h.pid();
         let _ = h.join();
         let exit_reason = terminal_reason(pid_exit);
 
-        let h = smarm::spawn(|| panic!("induced"));
+        let h = smarm::spawn(|| {
+            let (tx, _rx) = smarm::channel::<()>();
+            let _ = smarm::register(smarm::Name::<()>::new("terminal_probe_panic"), tx);
+            panic!("induced");
+        });
         let pid_panic = h.pid();
         let _ = h.join();
         let panic_reason = terminal_reason(pid_panic);
 
-        let h = smarm::spawn(|| loop {
+        let h = smarm::spawn(|| {
+            let (tx, _rx) = smarm::channel::<()>();
+            let _ = smarm::register(smarm::Name::<()>::new("terminal_probe_stop"), tx);
+            loop {
                 smarm::sleep(Duration::from_millis(2));
+            }
         });
         let pid_stop = h.pid();
         request_stop(pid_stop);
         let _ = h.join();
         let stopped_reason = terminal_reason(pid_stop);
 
+        // --- Anonymous control: an unregistered death must NOT stamp (nor
+        // evict) — the free list is LIFO, so green-thread churn would
+        // otherwise overwrite a watchable record faster than any race
+        // window this exists to cover.
+        let h = smarm::spawn(|| panic!("anonymous"));
+        let pid_anon = h.pid();
+        let _ = h.join();
+        let anon_reason = terminal_reason(pid_anon);
+
         // --- The named target: live readings first. -----------------------
         let target = GenServerBuilder::new(Target)
             .named(TARGET)
@@ -165,6 +189,7 @@ fn terminal_record_recovers_the_reason_a_raced_watch_lost() {
 
         *out_w.lock().unwrap() = Some(Observed {
             exit_reason,
+            anon_reason,
             panic_reason,
             stopped_reason,
             live_reason,
@@ -181,6 +206,10 @@ fn terminal_record_recovers_the_reason_a_raced_watch_lost() {
 
     let o = out.lock().unwrap().take().expect("runtime body completed");
     assert_eq!(o.exit_reason, Some(DownReason::Exit), "{o:?}");
+    assert_eq!(
+        o.anon_reason, None,
+        "anonymous deaths must not stamp: {o:?}"
+    );
     assert_eq!(o.panic_reason, Some(DownReason::Panic), "{o:?}");
     assert_eq!(o.stopped_reason, Some(DownReason::Stopped), "{o:?}");
     assert_eq!(