Six variations against the real application, one thing varied at a time: the
sign-up-breaks-the-next-connection defect is gone. New identity, immediate
reload or delayed; an identity already used for several cycles; and the very
identity poisoned by the pre-fix code, which now reconnects cleanly three times
out of three. So nothing needed healing -- the fix does not merely stop writing
the bad state, it makes what was already written harmless. The leaf is deleted
rather than graduated: its reproduction method, the stale-server trap it led to,
and "a provider gap is not worked around here" all live elsewhere already.
The count defect stays open, with its shape now known: it does converge across
connections, but takes one more than expected -- the first reconnect still shows
zero, the second shows the value.
And a correction worth keeping. The explanation offered for why withdrawal
converges in a single connection -- that it writes straight to the owner's
document instead of depositing -- is contradicted by the code: it deposits its
own marker into the same inbox, drained by the same owner routine, "symmetric"
by the code's own comment. The asymmetry is real and recorded as verified; its
cause is recorded as unknown rather than filled with a plausible story. Same
mechanism, same inbox, two connections against one, is a lead worth having
honestly.
The dev-server caveat is upgraded from inferred to verified, and it is worse
than it read: an edit to application source triggers a genuine rebuild, new
bundle hash and all, and that rebuild still carries the stale dependency. Only a
restart works, and "touch a file to force a rebuild" is now explicitly ruled out
as a substitute.
Sylvain Duchesne
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