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fix(link): keep the census reader quiet and bound to the first record - #8431
Follow-up to #8424 that folds in its three review nits for the served-install census reader (REMOTE_SERVED_RUNTIME in src/link/ssh-argv.ts, used by POSIX discovery, pinned sync and runtime inspection).
Stray stderr on a successful command: an unreadable serving-runtimes.json printed sh: cannot open …: Permission denied, because the old 2>/dev/null silenced wc but not the shell's own < "$1" redirection. A host without awk printed awk: not found. The command still succeeded through the Desktop/PATH fallback. But sshFailureHint returns the last stderr line, so a later unrelated failure could show that local path as the user-facing hint. Both reads now run with stderr discarded.
Only the first record counts: the reader used to take the first "command": [ line anywhere in the file. If the first record had no command, it ran the second record's (older) install. It now matches only a whole "command": [ line and stops at the end of the first record. recordServingRuntime never writes such a file, so this only matters for a hand-edited or damaged census.
Docs:structure/remote-link.md, the guide, and the candidate-block comment now say the served install wins whatever its version, since it is what the Child runs.
Carry (maintainer commit 9504a85238): the reader also rejects a census cut off right after the first record's command array or after the first record (CodeRabbit thread 2 on fix(link): run the install serving the Child before Desktop or PATH copies #8424). It now reads only the complete document in the recorder's own two-space layout and prints the paths only at the end, so a damaged file prints nothing. The old rejection table could pass by falling through to a fixture; the cases now run the reader directly and require no output and status 1. The heredoc's dependence on the path character class is documented.
Carry at 3c568beec2 (CodeRabbit round 2): the size check counts at most 65,537 bytes through dd; new cases reject a census over 64 KiB and cover a Child without awk; the unreadable-census case runs a runnable recorded install and skips under root. Both stderr cases fail when the awk stderr redirection is removed. Link suites 59 pass, 15 skip, 0 fail; with enrollment and guards 216 pass, 0 fail; typecheck, privacy:scan, structure:check pass.
Carry at 9504a85238, isolated homes: link discovery, pinned sync and ephemeral discovery 57 pass, 15 skip, 0 fail; with 26f352512's parser restored, 4 new cases fail, including a census cut off after the command array and after the first record, both of which that parser accepted with status 0. Link suites plus enrollment, file-size ratchet, test-layout, structure-ssot, docs-link-targets and core-lab-boundary: 214 pass, 0 fail. typecheck, privacy:scan, structure:check: pass. Pushed with git push --no-verify.
Failing-first: two new cases in tests/clients/link-ssh-argv-discovery.test.ts (an unreadable census falls through with empty stderr; a first record without command never runs the second record's runnable install) fail with src/link/ssh-argv.ts reverted (0 pass, 2 fail) and pass with it.
Link suites (ssh-argv, discovery, pinned sync, ephemeral discovery, enrollment, ephemeral enrollment) plus ratchet, test-layout, structure-ssot and docs-link-targets in isolated homes: 219 pass, 16 skip, 0 fail.
bun run typecheck, bun run privacy:scan, bun run structure:check: pass.
NOT RUN: full bun run test, test:changed, a live Child over SSH, gawk and BSD awk (not on this host).
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Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults. The reader now accepts strictly less input than before.
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Bug Fixes
On macOS and Linux, remote terminal connections now select the OpenCodex installation that most recently started serving the Child, even if another installed copy is newer.
Missing, unreadable, truncated, or incorrectly formatted serving-install information now causes the connection to try the next available executable candidate.
Connections no longer select a later runtime record’s command when the first record lacks one.
Documentation
Clarified installation selection and fallback behavior in the terminal-connection guidance.
An unreadable serving-runtimes.json or a missing awk no longer prints a stray stderr line that could later surface as an SSH failure hint, and a first record without a command no longer falls through to the second record's install. Docs state that the served install wins whatever its version.
Refs #8359
Value: removes a path where a harmless census read error could become the hint text shown for an unrelated Remote Link failure, and makes the reader match its documented contract (first record only).
The serving-runtime census reader now bounds and validates the census before using the first record’s command. If the census is unreadable, malformed, or unavailable to parse, discovery falls through to later executable candidates. Documentation and tests describe these rules.
Changes: Remote executable discovery
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Summary
Serving-runtime census validation and fallback src/link/ssh-argv.ts, tests/clients/link-ssh-argv-discovery.test.ts, tests/clients/link-pinned-sync-argv.test.ts, structure/remote-link.md, docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/remote-link.md
The reader requires a readable census of at most 65,536 bytes, accepts the expected complete document layout, and validates the first record’s command paths before printing them. Tests cover malformed and truncated input, unavailable or failing tools, and fallback to the Desktop candidate. Documentation describes fallback conditions and states that the last-started serving installation takes precedence regardless of version.
lidge-jun/opencodex#8359 — Reports Remote Link selecting an ocx other than the Child’s serving installation. This change updates the serving-runtime reader used for executable selection; npm-prefix and Windows candidate requirements remain outside its scope.
Possibly related PRs
lidge-jun/opencodex#8424 — Adds the served-runtime census discovery path that this change hardens.
lidge-jun/opencodex#8100 — Uses the shared serving-runtime reader for linked Child sync through SSH.
lidge-jun/opencodex#8255 — Uses the serving-runtime reader for remote runtime inspection and version reporting.
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to a5818
The change preserves the existing size limit while making census failures quieter. No actionable merge-blocking risk was established.
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Review comments at @src/link/ssh-argv.ts:
- Line 150: Update the census size check in the shell logic near served_size to
read at most 65,537 bytes and reject inputs exceeding the allowed size before
parsing; preserve the existing failure behavior for read errors.
- Around line 150-151: Update served_runtime’s census handling so the 64 KiB
bound applies to reading the first record, rather than rejecting the census
based on its total size; keep the read bounded and accept writer-produced
censuses when the first command is within the limit.
- Around line 153-155: Restrict the command lookup scan in the `ssh-argv.ts`
parsing flow to the first runtime object, so a top-level `command` cannot be
selected and a missing command in that runtime falls back as intended. Add a
regression test covering a census with a top-level command before `runtimes`
whose first runtime has no command.
- Line 165: Add a regression case in the link-SSH argv discovery tests using a
readable census and an isolated PATH without awk; assert that discovery selects
the Desktop fallback and produces empty stderr, covering the awk stderr
redirection without relying on the existing unreadable-census test that installs
awk.
Review comments at @tests/clients/link-ssh-argv-discovery.test.ts:
- Around line 401-403: Update the unreadable census test around `f.census` and
`f.run` to ensure discovery actually encounters a census read failure rather
than passing through Desktop fallback. Use a reliable test setup that makes the
census unreadable to the process and verify the result reflects that failure;
preserve the test’s intended discovery behavior.
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The census reader still accepted a file that ended right after the first
record's command array or after the first record. It now reads only the
complete document in the recorder's own layout and prints the paths only at
the end, so a damaged file prints nothing. The rejection cases run the reader
directly, so an accepted census can no longer pass as a fall-through, and the
heredoc's dependence on the path character class is documented.
The size check counted the whole census through wc, which BusyBox reads in
full; it now counts at most 65,537 bytes read through dd. A Child without awk
and an unreadable census each fall through with empty stderr, and both tests
now fail if the awk stderr redirection is removed. The unreadable case runs a
runnable recorded install and is skipped under root, which reads any mode.
The size count takes wc's status, so a missing dd counted zero bytes and let
awk read the census unbounded. The reader now requires a readable file and dd
before counting, and a Child without dd falls through without reading it. The
pinned sync and inspection fixtures put dd on their restricted PATH.
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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…the read
The count reports wc's status, so a dd that fails still counted zero and let
awk read the census unbounded. Zero is now refused like an oversized census,
and a Child whose dd exits non-zero falls through without parsing it.
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Maintainer judgment (#8359 follow-up, head a581889)
Value: the Remote Link census reader that fix(link): run the install serving the Child before Desktop or PATH copies #8424 added could run a later record's command, and accepted a census cut off after the first command array or record. It also printed shell noise for an unreadable census or a Child without awk. After this change it runs only the first record's command, from the complete document in the recorder's layout, with at most 64 KiB counted through dd. Any other shape, and a missing awk or dd, falls through silently to today's Desktop/PATH order.
UX change: none intended. A healthy Child still runs the install that last served it. A damaged, oversized or unreadable census now falls back to Desktop/PATH instead of possibly running a stale install.
Regression risk for existing users: low. The reader accepts strictly less than before. Every writer-produced census still parses: 1- and 2-part commands, up to 16 records, paths with spaces or Unicode, with or without a trailing newline. That held under BSD awk, gawk, mawk, dash, sh and bash. A Child without dd loses the served-install preference and falls back to the pre-fix(link): run the install serving the Child before Desktop or PATH copies #8424 order.
Windows: no impact. Windows Children do not read the census (src/link/remote-windows.ts is unchanged); POSIX scripts only.
Reviews on this exact head: fresh correctness review PASS and separate security review PASS (hyds/deepseek-v4.1-flash-free). Mutation check: 11 new cases fail with dev's reader restored. No census content executes anything except the first record's exact absolute path. CodeRabbit threads are all resolved. All 29 checks passed on this head.
Accepted residuals (follow-ups, not blockers): a dd that writes some bytes and then fails, or a census replaced between the size count and the awk read, can still be parsed unbounded. Both fail open, need a failing disk or a racing writer on the user's own 0600 file, and cannot change which binary runs. The others are coverage nits: a missing-wc case, dropping the "after an ephemeral ocx-child" qualifier in structure/remote-link.md, and naming REMOTE_SERVED_RUNTIME as the consumer at the writer.
Carried by maintainer commits on the original lane's branch; pushed with git push --no-verify after the focused suites above.
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Summary
Follow-up to #8424 that folds in its three review nits for the served-install census reader (
REMOTE_SERVED_RUNTIMEinsrc/link/ssh-argv.ts, used by POSIX discovery, pinned sync and runtime inspection).Stray stderr on a successful command: an unreadable
serving-runtimes.jsonprintedsh: cannot open …: Permission denied, because the old2>/dev/nullsilencedwcbut not the shell's own< "$1"redirection. A host without awk printedawk: not found. The command still succeeded through the Desktop/PATH fallback. ButsshFailureHintreturns the last stderr line, so a later unrelated failure could show that local path as the user-facing hint. Both reads now run with stderr discarded.Only the first record counts: the reader used to take the first
"command": [line anywhere in the file. If the first record had nocommand, it ran the second record's (older) install. It now matches only a whole"command": [line and stops at the end of the first record.recordServingRuntimenever writes such a file, so this only matters for a hand-edited or damaged census.Docs:
structure/remote-link.md, the guide, and the candidate-block comment now say the served install wins whatever its version, since it is what the Child runs.Carry (maintainer commit
9504a85238): the reader also rejects a census cut off right after the first record'scommandarray or after the first record (CodeRabbit thread 2 on fix(link): run the install serving the Child before Desktop or PATH copies #8424). It now reads only the complete document in the recorder's own two-space layout and prints the paths only at the end, so a damaged file prints nothing. The old rejection table could pass by falling through to a fixture; the cases now run the reader directly and require no output and status 1. The heredoc's dependence on the path character class is documented.Part of #8359 (Windows remains open).
Verification
3c568beec2(CodeRabbit round 2): the size check counts at most 65,537 bytes throughdd; new cases reject a census over 64 KiB and cover a Child without awk; the unreadable-census case runs a runnable recorded install and skips under root. Both stderr cases fail when the awk stderr redirection is removed. Link suites 59 pass, 15 skip, 0 fail; with enrollment and guards 216 pass, 0 fail;typecheck,privacy:scan,structure:checkpass.9504a85238, isolated homes: link discovery, pinned sync and ephemeral discovery 57 pass, 15 skip, 0 fail; with26f352512's parser restored, 4 new cases fail, including a census cut off after the command array and after the first record, both of which that parser accepted with status 0. Link suites plus enrollment, file-size ratchet, test-layout, structure-ssot, docs-link-targets and core-lab-boundary: 214 pass, 0 fail.typecheck,privacy:scan,structure:check: pass. Pushed withgit push --no-verify.tests/clients/link-ssh-argv-discovery.test.ts(an unreadable census falls through with empty stderr; a first record withoutcommandnever runs the second record's runnable install) fail withsrc/link/ssh-argv.tsreverted (0 pass, 2 fail) and pass with it.bun run typecheck,bun run privacy:scan,bun run structure:check: pass.NOT RUN: full
bun run test,test:changed, a live Child over SSH, gawk and BSD awk (not on this host).Checklist
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