The terminal record existed for watches that raced their target's death, but
e43c673 scoped its stamp to named tenancies — and the pid-identity watch
surface (§4 Slice 3) targets arbitrary actors, including anonymous ones whose
pids cross the boundary in contract replies. The first wild pid-face hit
(width-20 soak, pid_watch_test.exs:47, 1/600 full-suite: a monitor installed
while the child was alive delivered :noproc instead of {:smarm_exit, :panic})
is exactly the residual a0ba9be's commit body deferred.
ever_named becomes `watchable`, with a second set-site: mark_watchable(pid),
which the bridge calls wherever a smarm pid is encoded across the boundary —
BEAM can only watch pids it holds, and can only hold pids that crossed.
Anonymous never-exported churn (holder threads, egress tasks) stays
ineligible, preserving e43c673's LIFO-eviction protection unchanged.
mark_watchable takes the cold lock before the liveness screen: finalize
publishes Done and reads the bit under the same lock, so the mark either
lands before the death stamps or observes the tenancy dead and no-ops —
no lost-stamp window, and marking a corpse cannot invent history (pinned
in the test alongside the mark-while-alive stamp).
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.
A watch installed after its target's death has, until now, only NoProc to
report — but the bridge's proxies install their native watch asynchronously
after acquire returns, so a link established before a crash (from the BEAM's
view) could still lose the panic's translated reason to that blanket NoProc
(width-20 soak signature 4: link_test.exs:26, 1/600 full-suite, 3/2000
link-only, all whereis-miss; deterministic repro in the bridge suite).
Two primitives, no change to monitor()'s own Erlang-faithful stale-pid
semantics — the upgrade is the caller's deliberate act:
- finalize_actor stamps the slot with (generation, DownReason) under the same
cold-lock block that publishes the outcome. The record survives reclaim,
registry pruning, and the next tenant's install; only the slot's next death
overwrites it. terminal_reason(pid) reads it generation-matched.
- resolve_name(name) is whereis with the corpse kept: the dead-holder arm
returns the stored pid it prunes (NameResolution::Corpse) instead of
discarding the only evidence of who died — whereis itself prunes on the way
out, so a whereis-then-lookup consumer would find the evidence already
destroyed. Live/Unbound match whereis's Some/None; the name heals exactly
as before.
Contract pinned in tests/terminal_outcome_after_death.rs: one record per way
of dying (Exit/Panic/Stopped), no record while live, corpse capture + heal on
resolve_name, record independence from registry pruning, survival across slot
re-tenancy, overwrite at the next tenancy's death.
smarm-agent