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fix(flush): the gate settles its waiter from the machine, never from a chain
The single-flight gate queued its follow-up as
`leader.catch().then(() => this.flush())`. That waiter is settled ONLY by
resolving the very promise the leader is being awaited through, so the moment
anything inside a flush body awaits flush(), the promise graph closes on itself
and nobody resolves — an unbounded hang, not a slow flush, presenting exactly
like a bulk write timing out. No current call site awaits a flush from inside
one, so this is a latent cycle rather than an observed one; the gate should not
depend on that staying true.

The queue is now a bare deferred. The leader's finally opens the gate and
PROMOTES the waiter to a new leader, settling the deferred from that run; the
finally returns nothing, so the leader never awaits its own follower. Every
exit runs the same promotion — the leader resolving, the leader rejecting, the
promoted run rejecting — so a queued caller is settled exactly once on every
path, and a synchronous failure starting the promoted run is reported to the
waiter instead of thrown into the leader's finally. close() drains both handles.

tests/unit/brainy/flush-single-flight.test.ts pins the invariant on each path
that must settle a waiter: many callers during one flush all resolve within a
bound (one body, one follow-up, peak concurrency 1); a REJECTING leader still
runs and settles the queued waiter; a rejecting follow-up settles its waiter
and leaves the gate open; and the leader returns without waiting for a
deliberately slower follower.
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/**
* @module tests/integration/shutdown-single-owner
* @description ONE SHUTDOWN, ONE OWNER.
*
* MEASURED IN PRODUCTION. A host that owns its own shutdown — one SIGTERM
* listener calling `close()` on every pooled store — ran head-on into the
* engine's own signal handler, which iterated every live instance, flushed its
* components in parallel, and released its writer lock in a `finally`. Two
* teardowns of the same brain at the same moment. The log shape:
*
* "Shutdown signal received - flushing pending data..." (SIGTERM)
* ...148 seconds of silence...
* "Flushed successfully (1 instance)"
* ...the host's pool close of that same store returns 1s later
*
* 149s for the one store with engine work in flight, against 24s for its six
* idle siblings. The same race in a local reproduction printed
* `Failed to flush one Brainy instance on shutdown: Writer fence lost … the
* lock file is gone` — the handler observing a lock the close it was racing
* had already released.
*
* The contract pinned here:
* (a) A host owner and the engine's hooks both live: EXACTLY ONE close runs
* per brain, no fence is lost, both durability markers are written, the
* process exits 0, and the reopen adopts rather than folding.
* (b) No host owner: the engine's handler closes every instance by the same
* `close()` path — markers written, clean exit.
* (c) `close()` is idempotent and re-entrant: concurrent callers share ONE
* execution and all of them settle.
* (d) Flush is single-flight: N kicks during a running flush arm exactly one
* follow-up, and two flush bodies never overlap.
*/
import { describe, it, expect, beforeEach, afterEach } from 'vitest'
import { mkdtempSync, rmSync, existsSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs'
import { spawn } from 'node:child_process'
import { tmpdir } from 'node:os'
import { join } from 'node:path'
import { Brainy } from '../../src/brainy.js'
import { NounType } from '../../src/types/graphTypes.js'
const REPO_ROOT = process.cwd()
const TSX = join(REPO_ROOT, 'node_modules', '.bin', 'tsx')
const BRAINY_SRC = join(REPO_ROOT, 'src', 'brainy.ts')
function makeTempDir(prefix: string): string {
return mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), prefix))
}
/** The writer lock's clean-close record — written by `releaseWriterLock()`. */
const closeRecordPath = (dir: string) => join(dir, 'locks', '_writer.close')
/**
* The generation store's clean-shutdown marker — the adopt-vs-fold gate.
* (`FileSystemStorage` gzips raw objects, so the file on disk carries `.gz`;
* both spellings are accepted so the pin survives a compression change.)
*/
const cleanShutdownWritten = (dir: string) =>
existsSync(join(dir, '_system', 'clean-shutdown.json.gz')) ||
existsSync(join(dir, '_system', 'clean-shutdown.json'))
/**
* Write a child script and start it under tsx, in its OWN process group so a
* group-wide signal reaches the grandchild that actually holds the writer
* lock. (A file, not `tsx -e`: the eval form compiles to CommonJS, which has
* no top-level await.)
*/
function startChild(scriptDir: string, body: string): ReturnType<typeof spawn> {
const scriptPath = join(scriptDir, 'child-process.mts')
writeFileSync(scriptPath, body)
return spawn(TSX, [scriptPath], {
cwd: REPO_ROOT,
stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
detached: true
})
}
/** Start a child and resolve once it prints READY, collecting all its output. */
function startAndAwaitReady(
scriptDir: string,
body: string
): Promise<{ child: ReturnType<typeof spawn>; output: () => string }> {
const child = startChild(scriptDir, body)
let out = ''
child.stdout?.on('data', (d) => { out += String(d) })
child.stderr?.on('data', (d) => { out += String(d) })
return new Promise((resolvePromise, rejectPromise) => {
const timer = setTimeout(
() => rejectPromise(new Error(`child never became READY:\n${out}`)),
120_000
)
child.stdout?.on('data', () => {
if (out.includes('READY')) {
clearTimeout(timer)
resolvePromise({ child, output: () => out })
}
})
child.on('exit', (code) => {
clearTimeout(timer)
if (!out.includes('READY')) rejectPromise(new Error(`child exited ${code} before READY:\n${out}`))
})
})
}
/** Capture console.warn/error/log lines emitted while `fn` runs. */
async function captureConsole<T>(fn: () => Promise<T>): Promise<{ result: T; lines: string[] }> {
const lines: string[] = []
const orig = { log: console.log, warn: console.warn, error: console.error }
const sink = (...args: unknown[]) => { lines.push(args.map((a) => String(a)).join(' ')) }
console.log = sink as typeof console.log
console.warn = sink as typeof console.warn
console.error = sink as typeof console.error
try {
return { result: await fn(), lines }
} finally {
console.log = orig.log
console.warn = orig.warn
console.error = orig.error
}
}
/**
* Reopen a store and assert the open ADOPTED: no crash-recovery fold, no
* stale-lock verdict. This is the whole point of a close having run exactly
* once — a fold is measured in tens of seconds on a real store.
*/
async function expectCleanReopen(dir: string): Promise<void> {
const { result, lines } = await captureConsole(async () => {
const next = new Brainy({ requireSubtype: false, storage: { type: 'filesystem', path: dir } })
await next.init()
return next
})
try {
expect(lines.filter((l) => /log-authority recovery|unclean shutdown detected/i.test(l))).toEqual([])
expect(lines.filter((l) => /Overwriting stale writer lock|appears dead/i.test(l))).toEqual([])
} finally {
await result.close()
}
}
/** The child's counts of closes entered and close bodies run, per brain. */
function readResult(
resultPath: string,
out: string
): { entries: Record<string, number>; bodies: Record<string, number>; releases: Record<string, number> } {
if (!existsSync(resultPath)) throw new Error(`child wrote no result file:\n${out}`)
return JSON.parse(readFileSync(resultPath, 'utf-8'))
}
/**
* The child-side instrumentation, shared by (a) and (b): count how many times
* `close()` is ENTERED per brain and how many times its body actually RUNS.
* The counting wrapper is an OWN property, so it shadows the prototype for
* every caller — including the engine's own signal handler, which calls
* `instance.close()`.
*
* `report()` writes SYNCHRONOUSLY to a file: it runs on the way out of the
* process (the engine's handler calls `process.exit(0)` when it is the sole
* shutdown owner), and a `console.log` to a pipe is asynchronous and can be
* dropped by that exit.
*/
function childCounters(resultPath: string): string {
return `
const entries = {}
const bodies = {}
const releases = {}
function instrument(name, brain) {
entries[name] = 0
bodies[name] = 0
releases[name] = 0
const enter = brain.close.bind(brain)
brain.close = () => { entries[name]++; return enter() }
const durable = brain.closeDurableSteps.bind(brain)
brain.closeDurableSteps = () => { bodies[name]++; return durable() }
// The writer lock is the ownership witness: the old handler released it
// in its own finally, on top of the owner's close doing the same.
const storage = brain.storage
const release = storage.releaseWriterLock.bind(storage)
storage.releaseWriterLock = () => { releases[name]++; return release() }
}
const report = () => {
__writeFileSync(${JSON.stringify(resultPath)}, JSON.stringify({ entries, bodies, releases }))
}
`
}
describe('shutdown has exactly one owner', () => {
let dirA: string
let dirB: string
let scriptDir: string
let resultPath: string
beforeEach(() => {
dirA = makeTempDir('brainy-shutdown-owner-a-')
dirB = makeTempDir('brainy-shutdown-owner-b-')
scriptDir = makeTempDir('brainy-shutdown-owner-script-')
resultPath = join(scriptDir, 'result.json')
})
afterEach(() => {
for (const d of [dirA, dirB, scriptDir]) {
try { rmSync(d, { recursive: true, force: true }) } catch { /* ignore */ }
}
})
it('(a) a host owner closes both brains and the engine handler steps aside', async () => {
const script = `
import { writeFileSync as __writeFileSync } from 'node:fs'
import { Brainy } from ${JSON.stringify(BRAINY_SRC)}
const a = new Brainy({ requireSubtype: false, storage: { type: 'filesystem', path: ${JSON.stringify(dirA)} } })
const b = new Brainy({ requireSubtype: false, storage: { type: 'filesystem', path: ${JSON.stringify(dirB)} } })
await a.init()
await b.init()
await a.add({ data: 'row in brain a', type: 'concept' })
await b.add({ data: 'row in brain b', type: 'concept' })
${childCounters(resultPath)}
instrument('a', a)
instrument('b', b)
// THE HOST'S OWN SHUTDOWN OWNER, registered after the engine's hooks —
// the ordinary shape: the pool was built before the signal wiring.
process.on('SIGTERM', async () => {
await Promise.all([a.close(), b.close()])
// Stay alive a beat so the engine's deferred handler gets its turn and
// has to decide what to do about two already-closed brains.
await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 1500))
report()
process.exit(0)
})
console.log('READY')
setInterval(() => {}, 1000)
`
const { child, output } = await startAndAwaitReady(scriptDir, script)
process.kill(-(child.pid as number), 'SIGTERM')
const code = await new Promise<number | null>((r) => child.on('exit', (c) => r(c)))
// The tsx wrapper's exit event and the grandchild that actually held the
// locks are asynchronous with each other — let its last writes land.
await new Promise<void>((r) => setTimeout(r, 750))
const out = output()
// The process shut down cleanly.
expect(code, `child output:\n${out}`).toBe(0)
// EXACTLY ONE close per brain — entered once, body run once. A second
// entry would mean the engine's handler closed a brain its owner was
// already closing; a second body would mean close() is not single-flight.
const { entries, bodies, releases } = readResult(resultPath, out)
expect(entries).toEqual({ a: 1, b: 1 })
expect(bodies).toEqual({ a: 1, b: 1 })
// ...and the writer lock was given up exactly once per brain. This is the
// assertion that fails on the old handler, which released the lock in its
// own `finally` on top of the owner's close doing the same — two owners.
expect(releases).toEqual({ a: 1, b: 1 })
// The engine's handler ran (it announced the signal) and stepped aside for
// both brains rather than touching them. setImmediate lands in the check
// phase of the same loop turn, so a close that has begun cannot have
// finished — it is still in flight when the handler looks.
expect(out).toContain('Shutdown signal received')
expect(out).toMatch(/2 Brainy instances are already closing/)
// Nothing was taken out from under the owner, and nothing failed.
expect(out).not.toMatch(/Writer fence lost/i)
expect(out).not.toMatch(/Failed to (flush|close) one Brainy instance/i)
// Both durability markers, both brains: the writer lock's clean-close
// record and the generation store's clean-shutdown marker.
for (const dir of [dirA, dirB]) {
expect(existsSync(closeRecordPath(dir)), `clean-close record missing in ${dir}`).toBe(true)
expect(cleanShutdownWritten(dir), `clean-shutdown marker missing in ${dir}`).toBe(true)
}
// And the next open adopts instead of folding.
await expectCleanReopen(dirA)
await expectCleanReopen(dirB)
}, 240_000)
it('(b) with no host owner the engine closes every instance the same way', async () => {
const script = `
import { writeFileSync as __writeFileSync } from 'node:fs'
import { Brainy } from ${JSON.stringify(BRAINY_SRC)}
const a = new Brainy({ requireSubtype: false, storage: { type: 'filesystem', path: ${JSON.stringify(dirA)} } })
const b = new Brainy({ requireSubtype: false, storage: { type: 'filesystem', path: ${JSON.stringify(dirB)} } })
await a.init()
await b.init()
await a.add({ data: 'row in brain a', type: 'concept' })
await b.add({ data: 'row in brain b', type: 'concept' })
${childCounters(resultPath)}
instrument('a', a)
instrument('b', b)
process.on('exit', report)
console.log('READY')
setInterval(() => {}, 1000)
`
const { child, output } = await startAndAwaitReady(scriptDir, script)
process.kill(-(child.pid as number), 'SIGTERM')
const code = await new Promise<number | null>((r) => child.on('exit', (c) => r(c)))
// The tsx wrapper's exit event and the grandchild that actually held the
// locks are asynchronous with each other — let its last writes land.
await new Promise<void>((r) => setTimeout(r, 750))
const out = output()
expect(code, `child output:\n${out}`).toBe(0)
// The engine owned this shutdown: one close per brain, through close().
const { entries, bodies, releases } = readResult(resultPath, out)
expect(entries).toEqual({ a: 1, b: 1 })
expect(bodies).toEqual({ a: 1, b: 1 })
expect(releases).toEqual({ a: 1, b: 1 })
expect(out).toContain('Shutdown signal received')
expect(out).toMatch(/Flushed successfully \(2 instances\)/)
expect(out).not.toMatch(/Writer fence lost/i)
expect(out).not.toMatch(/Failed to (flush|close) one Brainy instance/i)
for (const dir of [dirA, dirB]) {
expect(existsSync(closeRecordPath(dir)), `clean-close record missing in ${dir}`).toBe(true)
expect(cleanShutdownWritten(dir), `clean-shutdown marker missing in ${dir}`).toBe(true)
}
await expectCleanReopen(dirA)
await expectCleanReopen(dirB)
}, 240_000)
it('(c) two concurrent close() callers share ONE execution, and both settle', async () => {
const brain = new Brainy({ requireSubtype: false, storage: { type: 'filesystem', path: dirA } })
await brain.init()
await brain.add({ data: 'one row', type: NounType.Concept })
const inner = brain as unknown as { closeDurableSteps: () => Promise<void> }
const durable = inner.closeDurableSteps.bind(inner)
let bodies = 0
inner.closeDurableSteps = () => { bodies++; return durable() }
expect(brain.isClosing).toBe(false)
expect(brain.isClosed).toBe(false)
const first = brain.close()
// The state is observable IMMEDIATELY — a signal handler that yields a
// tick and comes back must not read a stale "not yet".
expect(brain.isClosing).toBe(true)
const second = brain.close()
expect(first === second, 'concurrent callers must share the one promise').toBe(true)
await Promise.all([first, second])
expect(bodies).toBe(1)
expect(brain.isClosed).toBe(true)
// A caller arriving after the close finished gets the same settled answer,
// and nothing runs again.
await brain.close()
expect(bodies).toBe(1)
expect(existsSync(closeRecordPath(dirA))).toBe(true)
expect(cleanShutdownWritten(dirA)).toBe(true)
}, 120_000)
it('(d) N kicks during a running flush arm exactly one follow-up, never a second flush', async () => {
const brain = new Brainy({ requireSubtype: false, storage: { type: 'filesystem', path: dirA } })
await brain.init()
const inner = brain as unknown as {
_flushBodyRuns: number
_flushConcurrencyPeak: number
_flushInFlight: Promise<void> | null
_flushQueued: Promise<void> | null
_persistBackgroundFlight: Promise<void> | null
metadataIndex: { flush: () => Promise<void> }
kickBackgroundFlush: (reason: 'threshold' | 'idle') => void
}
// Widen the flush body's window so the kicks land INSIDE it — the
// production shape, where two flushes overlapped 3s apart.
const metaFlush = inner.metadataIndex.flush.bind(inner.metadataIndex)
inner.metadataIndex.flush = async () => {
await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 400))
return metaFlush()
}
await brain.add({ data: 'a write to flush', type: NounType.Concept })
const runsBefore = inner._flushBodyRuns
const leader = brain.flush()
await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 50)) // the leader is inside its body
expect(inner._flushInFlight, 'a flush is running').not.toBeNull()
// The cadence kicks — the door named in the defect — plus direct callers
// (an application flush, the cross-process flush-request watcher).
for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) inner.kickBackgroundFlush('threshold')
const direct = [brain.flush(), brain.flush(), brain.flush()]
// EXACTLY ONE follow-up is armed, however many callers arrived.
expect(inner._flushQueued, 'the eight kicks armed one follow-up').not.toBeNull()
await Promise.all([leader, ...direct, inner._persistBackgroundFlight ?? Promise.resolve()])
// One leader + one follow-up. Not nine, and never two at once.
expect(inner._flushBodyRuns - runsBefore).toBe(2)
expect(inner._flushConcurrencyPeak).toBe(1)
expect(inner._flushInFlight).toBeNull()
expect(inner._flushQueued).toBeNull()
inner.metadataIndex.flush = metaFlush
await brain.close()
}, 120_000)
})