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model: claude-fable-5
service: claude
timestamp: 2026-07-02T15:50:06Z
git_ref: 65bf9df5
diff_cmd: git diff main..wkt/uds_macos_473
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# Raw output — GH #473 UDS-on-macOS root-cause session

NOTE: code output is diff-referenced (not copied) per
prompt-io diff-ref mode; all generated code is on branch
`wkt/uds_macos_473` relative to `main` (65bf9df5).

## Diagnostic narrative (verbatim)

Root-cause work proceeded by linux-side simulation since no
macOS host is available:

1. Pulled the actual macOS CI failure log from PR #460 run
   28343878933 (job 84115107992): the failure is a bare
   `assert 1 == 0` on `proc.returncode` with NO stderr
   surfaced — the harness only re-raised when the LAST
   stderr line contained 'Error'.

2. Reproduced the stderr-swallow mechanism on linux: any
   `tractor` root-actor crash ends stderr with the
   strict-EG collapse note
   `( ^^^ this exc was collapsed from a group ^^^ )` which
   never matches 'Error' — so EVERY possible crash was
   swallowed. (Verified by sabotaging the runtime dir via
   an over-long `XDG_RUNTIME_DIR` → `OSError: AF_UNIX path
   too long` → rc=1 + swallowed.)

3. Found + proved a macOS-only addr-corruption bug in
   `MsgpackUDSStream.get_stream_addrs()`: the
   `(str(), str())` match-arm unconditionally took
   `peername`, but on no-autobind platforms (macOS lacks
   linux's `SO_PASSCRED`-triggered autobind) the accept
   side's `getpeername()` is `''` → `Path('')` garbage
   laddr/raddr on EVERY accepted UDS conn. Simulated on
   linux by nulling `SO_PASSCRED` (no autobind → same `''`
   shape): pre-fix the example printed
   `listener sock file: .`; post-fix it prints the real
   registry sockpath. Non-fatal on linux-sim (rc=0), so
   possibly not the final macOS crasher — the diagnostic
   patch guarantees the next macOS CI run reveals any
   remaining layer.

4. Falsified the missing-parent-dir theory:
   `get_rt_dir()` already `mkdir(parents=True,
   exist_ok=True)`s at import (and macOS TCP CI passes),
   so `~/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems` absence cannot be
   the crasher. Hardened `start_listener()`'s bindspace
   mkdir anyway (custom `filedir` case + racing actors).

## Generated changes (diff pointers)

> `git diff main..wkt/uds_macos_473 -- tests/test_docs_examples.py`

- always raise with FULL subproc stderr (+stdout) on any
  non-zero example exit; keep legacy last-line 'Error'
  check for zero-rc cases; drop the macOS+CI skip of
  `uds_transport_actor_tree.py` (GH #473 next-step).

> `git diff main..wkt/uds_macos_473 -- tractor/ipc/_uds.py`

- `get_stream_addrs()`: document the autobind semantics
  (bytes = linux abstract-ns autobind artifact), add
  no-autobind `(str, str)` arm picking the non-empty name
  (`peername` connect-side, `sockname` accept-side) with
  an empty-pair `ValueError` guard.
- `start_listener()`: `bs.mkdir(parents=True,
  exist_ok=True)`.

> `git diff main..wkt/uds_macos_473 -- .github/workflows/ci.yml`

- remove the `macos-latest`+`uds` matrix exclude so
  UDS-on-macOS is exercised by CI (GH #473 next-step).

> `git diff main..wkt/uds_macos_473 -- examples/uds_transport_actor_tree.py`

- docs nit: peer-pid mechanism is `SO_PEERCRED` on linux,
  `LOCAL_PEERPID` on macOS.

## Verification (verbatim summary)

- macOS-shape sim (no autobind) + fix: example rc=0 with
  correct listener sockpath.
- native linux post-fix: example rc=0, autobind arms
  unchanged.
- sabotage smoke-test: diagnostic patch surfaces the full
  EG traceback incl. collapse-note line.
- `pytest tests/ipc/ tests/test_2way.py tests/discovery/
  --tpt-proto uds`: 61 passed, 1 `TooSlowError` flake
  (test_simple_rpc) that passes solo in 2.2s — attributed
  to a concurrent full-suite run (other session) loading
  the host.
- full `tests/test_docs_examples.py` run pending at
  raw-file write time (queued behind the concurrent
  session's suite).
