A review of the group-E fixes found 13 further defects; ten were introduced by
those fixes, two pre-existed and were merely relocated, one is deferred.
Services / transport
E-10 retireWorker synthesized no bg/exit frame, so sharedspice's s_bgRunning
mirror stayed latched true after a mid-run worker death: Run stayed
disabled and the promised fresh-worker restart was unreachable for the
whole session. Retirement now dispatches a synthetic controlled-exit
straight to the installed handler (never through dispatchEvt — a
fabricated frame must not touch the credit ledger). Driving the repro
exposed two further defects, both fixed here: a replacement worker
trapped on pre-init engine reads, and the rerun's cm_input_path/circ hit
that uninitialized engine before KiCad's validate() re-init (the native
flow assumes a crashed engine survives in-process — true for the dll,
false for a dead worker). Reads now answer their empty shapes pre-init,
writes lazy-init, and init is idempotent per worker engine.
E-19 dispatchEvt acked only AFTER handler(evt) returned, and the sharedspice
client deliberately rethrows non-trap errors — so each throw leaked one
unit of the 64-frame credit window until the stream died with a
misattributed "transport exceeded". The ack moves to a finally in both
service copies; the throw still propagates (the trap machinery needs it).
E-20 the oversize-line path promises to transfer the accepted prefix, but
with the window full that flush only DEFERS, and stopEventStream wiped
the deferred queue — losing the diagnostics that explain the failure.
The terminal notice now carries them as pendingEvents; both hosts
deliver them in order, unacked (the fatal frame is outside the credit
protocol).
E-21 the 30s prefetch deadline discarded every model already collected and
reported nothing. A caller-owned progress sink ships the partials and
the omission reaches the export report. (Awaiting the aborted collection
was rejected: an in-flight source fetch is not abortable — E-4's
original disease.) Plus a serving-candidate memo, so a .wrl ref served
by its .step fallback stops re-probing the miss on every export.
Scheduler
E-14 _terminalizeNativeTrap classified by message substring, so any plain JS
error QUOTING 'Aborted(' or 'out of bounds' permanently bricked a
healthy instance. Now structural only: instanceof RuntimeError plus a
duck-typed name check (verified in this build's glue that abort() throws
a genuine RuntimeError both pre- and post-runtime-init). Module.onAbort
now latches the gate — the authoritative notification, previously
ignored.
E-15 the shim half: _pumpResume gates on terminal (catching wakes already
queued at latch time) and resolveWait refuses on terminal WITHOUT
consuming the entry, so a frame stays visibly parked rather than
resuming inside a trapped module.
E-16 the E-5 handler read the realm-global scheduler at dispatch instead of
its installing module's; also frees the per-line buffer on the non-trap
rethrow path.
E-11 get_vec trusted the worker's res.length over the transferred arrays.
Observed death shape: a 4 GiB std::vector threw an unhandled
std::length_error that exited the editor's main loop. Now clamped, with
the buffers freed on every failure path.
Guardrails (replacing two deferred refactors: e2e→production-code injection and
collapsing the four copies of the worker-lifecycle machinery)
E-18 the source contract asserted comment-string counts — rewording failed
CI while moving a guard outside its #ifdef passed. It now parses the
#ifdef regions and asserts on code.
service-stub-parity.ts pins what the four lifecycle copies must share:
credit-window equality parsed from source, the finally-ack, boot
deadlines, terminal-notice consumption. The transport numbers are now
single-sourced from the worker.
CI actually runs the gates: the web/standalone vitest suites (which had
NEVER run in CI), the reducer, the source contract and the parity tool —
with a NON_PLAYWRIGHT_GATES check so deleting a step re-fails the lint.
E-22 the e2e occ stub's 60s boot watchdog, deleted in a66e109, is restored in
the ngspice-stub shape with a wedgeNextBoot() repro hook.
Every behavioral fix has red-then-green evidence (the reds were captured first).
E-17 (a stale RUNNING cross-stamping the next run's generation under E-6's
transport deferral) is DEFERRED with its analysis recorded — a real fix needs
run identity on the bg frames.
Test hygiene: the dwell lint now requires the mandated ": <why>" and all 47 bare
markers carry their reason; three export-report dwells became modal-lease polls;
exact-ledger assertions became relative deltas; the dead data-wx-dom-id branch,
an unused fault hook and unused receipt plumbing are gone; abort scans, wx
dialog drivers, the sim harness and the vitest FakeWorker are each one copy now.
Bumps kicad and wxwidgets to their findings-group-e tips.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
E-5: the module-identity bridge called installingModule._malloc, but this
build exposes _malloc only as a bare glue-closure export (Module._malloc is
absent) — every char/stat event entry threw TypeError, which also starved
the E-6 credit window (thrown dispatches never acked) and wedged the queued
bg-finished frame behind them. The bridge now uses the bare closure exports
(identity is still exact: the EM_JS body IS the installing module's closure;
the __ngspiceOnEvent self-disarm covers supersession).
E-6 (codex reference design corrected — its validation matrix never ran):
a FULL credit window was terminal (stopEventStream at 64 in-flight frames).
Under live e2e that killed a real simulation: bg-thread emissions proxy one
per task, so each line ships as its own frame and a normal transient outruns
a busy main thread. A full window now DEFERS into a bounded FIFO (512 events
/ 4 MiB) drained in order as acks free credit; only true overload or an
invalid ack is terminal. Retention stays bounded (8 MiB in flight + 4 MiB
deferred + 1 MiB open batch). And the service/harness mirror queue now acks
at ENQUEUE — placing a frame in the bounded pre-handler queue is taking
ownership; without that, a stream starting before the C++ handler installs
(the ngspice-probe page) starves the worker window forever.
Test updates: worker-batch reducer — new "a full credit window defers and
drains in order, never terminal" case pinning the regression; the storm case
now proves the deferred caps are the terminal edge. board-ready.ts gains the
owner-free openBoardProgrammatically (codex helper the ported occ-export
spec needs; the barrier-based waitForUiBoardReady was NOT taken).
occ-export.spec: domId is optional on this line's registry (coordinate
fallback is the supported path).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adapted from codex/asyncify-execution-owner-core 3753320. Service side mirrors
the occ-service shape (E-1 watchdogs, E-2 fail-all + boot-death fix — onerror
now rejects the in-flight boot waiter instead of stranding it, E-3
onmessageerror terminal, Blob URL revoked, per-generation evtQueue cleared on
retirement).
E-6 transport bounds (worker hunks re-applied inside the emscripten-6
em-pthread else-branch — the codex file predates that split, so this is a
re-application, not a cherry-pick):
- batch cut at 512 lines / 1 MiB exact JSON-UTF-8 bytes, measured before a
line is retained; a single line > 1 MiB flushes the accepted prefix then
stops the event stream terminally (never retained);
- posting gated by a 64-frame / 8 MiB unacked credit window; each frame
carries { eventSequence, eventBytes } and is released only by an exact
{ sequence, bytes } ack; any mismatched ack is terminal;
- the service mirrors the same 64-frame / 8 MiB bound on its pre-handler
queue, acks after handing a frame to __ngspiceOnEvent, and retires the
generation on invalid credit; { fatal } frames retire the worker.
Tests: ngspice-service.test.ts (11, ported) — watchdogs, crash/bootError/
decode-fault settlement + recovery, out-of-order ids, sync postMessage throw,
stale-generation event drops, fatal-frame retirement. tests/tools/
ngspice-worker-batch-unit.ts (node:vm over the production worker source;
`npm run ngspice:worker-batch`) — bounded ordered chunks, byte-pressure
flush, 100k-chunk credit storm, over-limit line, exact ack lease. e2e harness
twin updated to speak the ack protocol (adds __ngspiceServiceTestHooks).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Istvan Matejcsok