Two defects found in review, both of which made checks PASS more easily, so
neither ever went red.
GATE: is_covered() hardcoded its jail flags and never read the jail_args
marker that ci_mirror.sh and shell-tests.yml both consume. The features/lib
suite needs /usr/local/share and /etc/pki and aborts under set -e without
them -- but the coverage number still printed, because kcov had already
recorded whatever the dead run reached. The gate would have graded 44 libs on
a suite that never finished. It now reads the marker, keeps the historical
defaults for suites without one, fails closed on an empty marker, and passes
--fail-on-case-error.
Negative control: stripping the binds makes the gate exit 1 and restoring
them returns exit 0. Before this commit both cases exited 0 -- the gate could
not fail on an aborting suite.
HASH CACHE: the _t_unstub helper written earlier today for the transcribe
harness was needed in features_harness.sh too. Two assertions were vacuous --
test_dwm_config's "verify still reports when dwm is absent", and
test_rpi_nc_ca's uname removal, where a cached uname left every later branch
running under a faked Darwin. All four `rm -f "$TEST_TMPDIR/bin/` sites in
the repo were audited; the other two are sound (one probes with [[ -f ]], the
other runs in a subshell).
No measured figure moved: dot_resolver_install.sh still 39/39 = 100.00% with
real absence enforced, so its off-allowlist clearance holds.
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A 26-assertion suite for rpi_nc_ca.sh, third in the hardest-first order. All
five OS branches are exercised by seeding the marker file each one tests for
inside the jailed /etc, plus a uname stub for Darwin; both NSS stores and all
three Firefox outcomes are covered.
SHARED-FILE BUG: the Debian branch does `mkdir -p
/usr/local/share/ca-certificates` and jail_args bound only /usr/local/bin, so
the suite aborted there under set -e. /usr/local/share and /etc/pki are now
bound. jail_args is shared by every suite in the directory, so all five libs
were re-measured: dot_resolver_install.sh still 39/39 = 100.00%, and
rpi_nc_install.sh, dwm_config.sh and aw_autostart.sh are unchanged. An
over-aggressive mount looks exactly like unreachable code, so this check is
not optional.
That bind also unblocked the runner for the whole directory: with the old
args the run exited 1 before nc_php.sh could be measured at all.
Measured 72/73 = 98.63% through run_all.sh, which is the exact subject
is_covered() builds -- the gate's own view -- so the lib STAYS on the
allowlist. The single test file alone reports 73/73 = 100.00%, both figures
reproduced twice. The one-line delta is line 141, the first line of
show_help's heredoc BODY: not a statement, so the denominator is wrong rather
than a test missing. Excluding heredoc bodies from the denominator is the
next piece of work; it is what stands between this suite and the bar.
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A 25-assertion suite for aw_autostart.sh, second in the hardest-first order.
The generated i3blocks status script is asserted by RUNNING it against
stubbed pacman/pgrep across all four of its branches -- uninstalled,
installed-but-stopped, running, installed-via-package -- rather than by
grepping the heredoc's text. A heredoc that emits syntactically broken bash
passes a text check and fails in front of the user.
One assertion was silently testing nothing at first: aw-qt is genuinely
installed at /usr/bin/aw-qt on this host, so the "not installed" case found
the real binary through the PREPENDED stub dir. PATH is now REPLACED for that
one case. The suite went 24-passed-1-failed -> 25-passed-0-failed, and the
gate caught it rather than the number.
Measured 68/82 = 82.93%; it STAYS on the allowlist. The residue is the
`[[ $EUID -eq 0 ]]` false branches, which are unreachable inside the jail
because the process is uid 0 there, plus the documented kcov under-report --
an `exit 44` sentinel proves create_i3blocks_status runs to completion while
its lines 145-162 report zero hits. Third lib to show it.
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A 27-assertion suite for dwm_config.sh, the highest-scored remaining
allowlisted lib. It drives the lib for real inside the jail: rewriting dwm.c
with perl, appending to config.h, compiling with cc and installing into
/usr/local/bin. The generated content is asserted, not just the call.
LATENT BUG, found by writing the test: apply_fullscreen_confine_hook does
`on=$(grep -c 'pconfine-auto on' "$src")`, and grep -c exits 1 when the count
is zero. The caller runs `set -euo pipefail`, so the function aborted at that
line exactly when the count was zero -- which is precisely when the
"setfullscreen/unmanage were likely refactored upstream" warning three lines
below was the thing needed. The warn branch was dead code in the only
situation it exists for. Both call sites now use `|| true`, and the suite
asserts the warning fires.
Measured: dwm_config.sh 35/73 = 47.95%. It STAYS on the allowlist -- the bar
is 100% and it is measured, not asserted.
That number is an under-report. An `exit 43` sentinel proves build_install,
build_pointer_confine, write_session_files and verify all execute inside the
jail while kcov reports their bodies at zero hits. One kcov artifact is now
CONFIRMED against a minimal repro: continuation lines inside a multi-line
quoted argument (the `perl -0777 -pe '...'` blocks) are counted as
statements that never run, which is the wrong denominator. A sixth
hypothesis -- that the exec-ing sudo shim or a pipeline loses the trace --
was tested and disproven. The two-strike time-box on this hunt is spent;
docs/shell-split-verification.md records what is known, including the
exit-sentinel technique for telling a tracing failure from an aborted suite.
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ci_mirror.sh and shell-tests.yml discovered every */lib/tests/run_all.sh and
invoked it bare. The features/lib suite refuses to run bare -- that guard is
what stops it rewriting the real /etc -- so the pre-push gate blocked all six
pending commits, and CI would have gone red on the same suite the moment they
landed.
A suite now DECLARES its jail requirement with a jail_args file beside its
run_all.sh, holding the --bind/--seed-* flags it needs. Both consumers branch
on the marker. The 105 still-allowlisted libs were scored on root ops and
system writes, so most future suites will need the jail too; naming the path
in two runners would drift, which is the failure ci_mirror.sh's own comments
say it exists to prevent.
Both branches fail closed: a marker present but empty is an error, not a skip.
Verified the extracted flags reproduce the independently measured
dot_resolver_install.sh 39/39 = 100.00%, and that the other five suites still
pass bare.
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rpi_nc_install.sh is one 200-line function that apt-installs 24
packages, seeds MariaDB, rm -rf's /var/www/nextcloud, rewrites Apache
and PHP config and installs a www-data crontab. 29 assertions, run for
real inside the jail. The destructive step is the point: a bug in
`rm -rf /var/www/nextcloud` is invisible to any check that does not
actually run it.
Two latent bugs in the ALREADY-COMMITTED nc_php suite, both found by
finally reading its assertion results instead of only its coverage
percentage. It was failing 2 of 29 in isolation:
- the cron entry arrives on crontab's STDIN, not in argv, so asserting
on the call log could never have passed for the right reason. The
stub now records stdin.
- configure_mariadb's stdout is eaten by `db_password=$(...)`, so the
phase-order marker now goes to stderr and the capture reads both.
Suites now: 28 + 30 + 29 = 87 assertions, 0 failures.
KNOWN AND UNEXPLAINED: kcov mis-measures rpi_nc_install.sh at 10/88 =
11.36%, recording lines 13-54 and nothing after -- yet the code past
line 54 provably runs, since /root/.nextcloud_db_password and
/etc/apache2/sites-available/nextcloud.conf both exist afterwards. The
three obvious culprits were each tested against a minimal reproduction
and DISPROVEN: kcov traces fine past a heredoc, into a $( ) command
substitution, and past a heredoc-fed stub reading stdin via $(cat).
The file stays on the allowlist and the suite is kept for its
assertions, not its percentage. Do not 'fix' the number by weakening a
test.
dot_resolver_install.sh 39/39 = 100.00%; nc_php.sh 84/85 = 98.82%.
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nc_php.sh was the next-hardest library on the allowlist. It targets a
Debian Raspberry Pi -- it edits /etc/php/<ver>/apache2/php.ini, drives
occ as www-data and installs a crontab -- so none of its write targets
exist on this Arch host and the jail had nothing to mirror.
- --seed-dir / --seed-file create the paths a foreign-platform subject
expects. Verified with a probe: /etc/php/8.2/apache2 exists inside
the jail while /etc/php does not exist outside it.
- A failed bind is now FATAL, and missing mountpoints are created
first. A bind that fails silently is indistinguishable from
unreachable code in the report, which is the misdiagnosis this
runner exists to prevent.
- Mirroring skips unreadable targets (/root as a normal user) rather
than aborting under set -e.
nc_php.sh: 84/85 = 98.82%, 24 assertions. It STAYS on the allowlist,
because 98.82% is below the bar. Line 111 -- the crontab first-run
fallback -- hung the suite on both attempts to cover it, so it is left
uncovered and documented rather than tried a third time.
Two harness hazards found the hard way and written down: a top-level
stub function shadows the subject's own function for every later
assertion (this silently dropped coverage 83.53% -> 57.65% while the
tests still passed), and a stub for a piped-into command must drain
stdin or the writer takes SIGPIPE.
dot_resolver_install.sh still measures 39/39 = 100.00%.
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The gate was a presence check -- 'a run_all.sh exists beside this lib' --
which an empty suite that asserts nothing satisfies. It now measures.
100% is reachable with no suppressions and no production source changes:
run the suite inside a user+mount namespace and the sudo-writes, systemd
units and nftables rules execute for real against a throwaway /etc.
- meta/scripts/shell_coverage_jail.sh: the runner, promoted out of a
session scratchpad. Two fixes it needed on the way: bind targets mirror
the real directory tree (an empty bind makes writes fail with ENOENT,
which reads as unreachable code), and sudo gets a pass-through stub
because real sudo cannot setresuid inside a userns.
- It fingerprints git status before and after and fails the run if a
write escapes the jail. Verified with a deliberate escapee.
- dot_resolver_install.sh: 39/39 = 100.00%, 28 assertions. Picked by
scoring every allowlisted lib on root ops, system writes and
destructive calls -- it scored highest in the repo. Allowlist 106 -> 105.
- jscpd was already over its own threshold at 2.45% and would have
rejected every commit staging a .sh file. Excluding vendored .venv/
shell alone gives 1.67%; also excluding lib/tests/ gives 1.47%.
The gate is deliberately NOT wired into the hook chain yet.
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