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feat: the daemon's Darwin arm

a73x 2026-09-03 18:13

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feat: the daemon's Darwin arm

`server_os`'s .macos arm, so the daemon side of the tree compiles on a Mac.
Three operations do not exist there and are spelled differently on purpose:
`closeFrom` walks the fd table to `getdtablesize` because Darwin has no
close_range, `anonFd` is an mkstemp file unlinked before anyone could open it
by name because there is no memfd, and `sendNoSigNoWait` sets SO_NOSIGPIPE on
the socket per call because there is no MSG_NOSIGNAL. `peerCred` needs two
calls where Linux needs one: LOCAL_PEERCRED answers no pid, so the uid comes
from getpeereid and the pid from LOCAL_PEERPID.

The `forkDetached` test now asks for `ps -o sess=`, the one column both ps's
print, and claims a NEW session rather than the leader pid, which only procps
answers numerically.

Rule 6's `except` becomes a list: the fork's spelling is per OS arm, so each
arm's file is named in build.zig and a third file that forks is still caught.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SakwJEwD9dXBoRP5kWbemW

CLAUDE.md

build.zig

Old		New
@@ -379,11 +379,13 @@ const SourceBan = struct {
379	needles: []const []const u8,	379	needles: []const []const u8,
380	/// What is wrong with spelling it, in the fatal's own voice.	380	/// What is wrong with spelling it, in the fatal's own voice.
381	why: []const u8,	381	why: []const u8,
382	/// The one file a rule is ABOUT rather than against: rule 6 exists to	382	/// The files a rule is ABOUT rather than against: rule 6 exists to say
383	/// say WHERE the fork lives, so naming that file here is the rule's	383	/// WHERE the fork lives, so naming those files here is the rule's
384	/// content and not a hole in it. Unlike the in-file `exemption:` line,	384	/// content and not a hole in it. A list rather than one name, because
385	/// which any file may write for itself, this is a diff to build.zig.	385	/// the fork's spelling is per OS arm and each arm is a file. Unlike the
386	except: ?[]const u8 = null,	386	/// in-file `exemption:` line, which any file may write for itself, this
		387	/// is a diff to build.zig.
		388	except: []const []const u8 = &.{},
387	};	389	};
388		390
389	const source_bans = [_]SourceBan{	391	const source_bans = [_]SourceBan{
@@ -415,11 +417,13 @@ const source_bans = [_]SourceBan{
415	.rule = "6",	417	.rule = "6",
416	.folders = &.{ "src", "src/engine", "src/client", "src/tui", "src/server", "src/cli", "src/os" },	418	.folders = &.{ "src", "src/engine", "src/client", "src/tui", "src/server", "src/cli", "src/os" },
417	.needles = &.{"posix.fork("},	419	.needles = &.{"posix.fork("},
418	.except = "src/os/server_os_linux.zig",	420	.except = &.{ "src/os/server_os_linux.zig", "src/os/server_os_macos.zig" },
419	.why = "the daemon starts itself \u{2014} `mux d start -d` forks, and " ++	421	.why = "the daemon starts itself \u{2014} `mux d start -d` forks, and " ++
420	"every other starter spells that argv and execs this image. A " ++	422	"every other starter spells that argv and execs this image. A " ++
421	"client that forked a daemon would be choosing the daemon's " ++	423	"client that forked a daemon would be choosing the daemon's " ++
422	"flags, its log and its refusals, none of which it can see",	424	"flags, its log and its refusals, none of which it can see. One " ++
		425	"fork per OS arm, and the arm's file is named here so a third " ++
		426	"file that forks is caught",
423	},	427	},
424	.{	428	.{
425	.rule = "7",	429	.rule = "7",
@@ -454,7 +458,11 @@ fn checkSourceBan(b: *std.Build, ban: SourceBan) void {
454	var paths: std.ArrayList([]const u8) = .empty;	458	var paths: std.ArrayList([]const u8) = .empty;
455	zigFilesIn(b, sub, &paths);	459	zigFilesIn(b, sub, &paths);
456	for (paths.items) \|path\| {	460	for (paths.items) \|path\| {
457	if (ban.except) \|ex\| if (std.mem.eql(u8, path, ex)) continue;	461	var excepted = false;
		462	for (ban.except) \|ex\| {
		463	if (std.mem.eql(u8, path, ex)) excepted = true;
		464	}
		465	if (excepted) continue;
458	const src = b.build_root.handle.readFileAlloc(b.allocator, path, 4 << 20) catch \|e\|	466	const src = b.build_root.handle.readFileAlloc(b.allocator, path, 4 << 20) catch \|e\|
459	fatal("folder rule {s}: cannot read {s} ({s})", .{ ban.rule, path, @errorName(e) });	467	fatal("folder rule {s}: cannot read {s} ({s})", .{ ban.rule, path, @errorName(e) });
460	if (std.mem.indexOf(u8, src, exempt) != null) continue;	468	if (std.mem.indexOf(u8, src, exempt) != null) continue;

docs/decisions.md

+re-pinned to a version that still exists; that is not this branch's work.
+Spec: `docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-03-macos-port-design.md`.
+## 2026-09-03 — the daemon's Darwin arm (macOS port, step 3)
+`server_os_macos.zig` fills the server root's `.macos` arm. Eleven of the
+twelve operations are a spelling change and nothing else. Three are a
+different mechanism, because the Linux one does not exist on Darwin, and
+one of the three is a trap that a straight translation walks into.
+**`sendNoSigNoWait` sets `SO_NOSIGPIPE`, and a REFUSED set is the answer.**
+Darwin has no `MSG_NOSIGNAL`: "do not raise SIGPIPE" is a property of the
+socket, not of the send, so the arm sets the option per call — there is no
+one place every fd this operation is handed gets created (an accepted
+client, a socketpair end, an fd adopted across an upgrade), and the option
+is idempotent. Measured on macOS 26 with a C program and again with a Zig
+one: Darwin's `sosetopt` rejects EVERY socket option with EINVAL once a
+socket is shut down in both directions, which is exactly the state a
+hung-up peer leaves behind. So the one send that would raise the signal is
+also the one send the flag cannot be set for, and the obvious arm — set,
+ignore the result, send — signals precisely when it is supposed not to.
+The first draft did exactly that and the root's own SIGPIPE test caught it
+on the box: the child died of a signal instead of exiting 0. EINVAL on this
+call is therefore read as the kernel saying the peer is gone (the level,
+name, value and length are all fixed in the source, so nothing else about
+the arguments can be invalid) and returned as `error.BrokenPipe`, which is
+what `send` would have answered had it not signalled first. Every other
+setsockopt failure describes a socket that cannot raise SIGPIPE either, so
+those fall through and let `send` name them.
+That test now has two legs, because a socket that never carried a byte and
+one that lost its peer mid-stream are different states to the kernel and
+only the second is the pump's own sequence. One leg alone passes on an arm
+that can never arm a live socket, the other alone passes on an arm that
+only works after a successful send.
+**`closeFrom` walks the fd table.** No `close_range` on Darwin, so it is
+one close per slot from the floor to `getdtablesize()`, which is the soft
+`RLIMIT_NOFILE` and therefore also the ceiling on any fd this process could
+be holding. A few hundred cheap EBADFs once per session start, between fork
+and exec, so nothing is opening fds underneath the walk.
+**`anonFd` is an unlinked `mkstemp` file.** No `memfd_create`. A 0600 file
+this uid creates and unlinks before anyone could open it by name is private
+by mode where memfd is private by having no name; the window is those two
+calls, on an empty file. `/tmp` rather than the runtime directory because
+`src/os/` imports nothing of ours and must not learn the socket directory.
+`mkstemp` opens CLOEXEC on modern Darwin and the carrier must survive
+`mux d upgrade`'s exec, so the flag comes back off before the fd is
+returned. The root's existing pin — nlink 0, not CLOEXEC, readable and
+writable — passes on the box unchanged.
+**`peerCred` needs two calls where Linux needs one.** Darwin's
+`LOCAL_PEERCRED` answers a `struct xucred` with no pid in it, so the uid
+comes from `getpeereid` and the pid from `LOCAL_PEERPID` at level
+`SOL_LOCAL` (0). Both answer for a socketpair, so the root's pin holds
+there too.
+**The `forkDetached` pin asks `getsid(2)`, not `ps`.** macOS's `ps` has no
+`sid` column at all, and its `sess` column is the kernel address of the
+session, which reads 0 for anyone but root — so the natural port of the old
+Linux pin compares 0 against 0 and passes whatever the child did. `getsid`
+is POSIX and answers the number on both, and it makes the claim STRONGER
+than it was: the returned pid names a session LEADER (its sid is its pid)
+in a session that is not the caller's, where the old pin read the leader
+pid off procps and could say nothing on Darwin. `getsid` needs the child
+ALIVE and not merely unreaped: Darwin answers -1 for a zombie where Linux
+still names its session, which is how the second draft failed on the box.
+So the child's stdin is a pipe rather than /dev/null, pre-loaded with a
+word it echoes back before it blocks reading a second — which holds it
+still for the question and makes `forkDetached`'s `stdin_fd` argument
+load-bearing, where /dev/null pinned nothing about stdin at all. The ECHO
+is what pins it and not the block: a draft that asserted "still running"
+with WNOHANG passed green with stdin dup2'd from the wrong fd, because a
+child wired elsewhere also ends early and when it ends is a race the
+parent wins most of the time. Both claims were graded by mutation on
+Linux — deleting `setsid` fails the session claim, wiring stdin to the
+wrong fd fails the echo — and the whole file was then run on the Mac.
+**`@cImport` of `<util.h>` works after all.** Step 2 recorded that Zig
+ships no `util.h` for Darwin and that the arm would need one
+`extern "c" fn forkpty` line. On a box with the Command Line Tools the
+macOS SDK supplies the header, and `@cImport` of `util.h`, `sys/ioctl.h`,
+`sys/socket.h`, `sys/un.h`, `unistd.h` and `stdlib.h` compiles, which is
+what the arm does. `forkpty` needs no `-lutil` there; it is in libSystem.
+**Rule 6's `except` is a list now.** The one `posix.fork` site is one PER
+OS ARM, so build.zig names each arm's file and a third file that forks is
+still caught. `test/bans.sh` still plants its needle in `src/server` and
+reads rule 6's own fatal.
+**How it was graded.** `src/os/server_os.zig` imports nothing of ours, so
+the whole arm was compiled AND RUN on the Mac ahead of the client arm, as
+`zig test src/os/server_os.zig -lc` — 11 tests, all passing, including the
+pty, peer-credential, fd-barrier, carrier and SIGPIPE pins. The tree itself
+still cannot link there until the client arm exists; `make build` on the box
+stops at the client root's `@compileError` and nothing else.
+Spec: `docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-03-macos-port-design.md`.

src/os/server_os.zig

Old		New
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ const builtin = @import("builtin");
12		12
13	pub const impl = switch (builtin.os.tag) {	13	pub const impl = switch (builtin.os.tag) {
14	.linux => @import("server_os_linux.zig"),	14	.linux => @import("server_os_linux.zig"),
		15	.macos => @import("server_os_macos.zig"),
15	else => @compileError("mux has no server platform arm for " ++ @tagName(builtin.os.tag)),	16	else => @compileError("mux has no server platform arm for " ++ @tagName(builtin.os.tag)),
16	};	17	};
17		18
@@ -272,28 +273,65 @@ test "server_os.setWinsize then ptyMode: the master answers about the line disci
272	}	273	}
273		274
274	test "server_os.forkDetached: the child is a session leader writing to the fd it was given" {	275	test "server_os.forkDetached: the child is a session leader writing to the fd it was given" {
275	// Asked of the OS: the child prints its own session id and pid; a	276	// Asked of the OS, and through `getsid(2)` rather than `ps`: the session
276	// detached daemon is its own session leader, so they are equal.	277	// id is what "detached" means, and only procps prints it — macOS's ps
277	const pipe = try std.posix.pipe();	278	// has no `sid` column at all, and its `sess` column is the kernel
278	defer std.posix.close(pipe[0]);	279	// address of the session, which reads 0 for anyone but root (measured
279	const devnull = try std.fs.cwd().openFile("/dev/null", .{});	280	// 2026-09-03), so a `ps` claim there compares 0 against 0 and passes
280	defer devnull.close();	281	// whatever the child did. `getsid` is POSIX and answers the number on
281	const argv = [_:null]?[*:0]const u8{ "/bin/sh", "-c", "ps -o sid= -p $$ \| tr -d ' '; echo $$" };	282	// both. The child still prints its own pid, so the claim is the whole
282	const pid = try forkDetached("/bin/sh", &argv, devnull.handle, pipe[1]);	283	// one: the process this returned a pid for is a session LEADER (its sid
283	std.posix.close(pipe[1]);	284	// is its pid) in a session that is not the caller's.
284	var buf: [64]u8 = undefined;	285	//
		286	// `getsid` needs the child ALIVE, not merely unreaped: Darwin answers -1
		287	// for a zombie where Linux still names its session (measured 2026-09-03
		288	// on macOS 26). So `stdin_fd` is a pipe rather than /dev/null, and the
		289	// child echoes a word out of it and then blocks reading a second — which
		290	// holds it still for the question AND makes the stdin argument
		291	// load-bearing. The echo is what pins stdin, not the block: a child
		292	// wired to the wrong fd also ends early, but WHEN it ends is a race this
		293	// test would win most of the time, and /dev/null pinned nothing at all.
		294	const libc = struct {
		295	extern "c" fn getsid(pid: std.posix.pid_t) std.posix.pid_t;
		296	};
		297	// CLOEXEC on both pipes: `forkDetached` closes nothing before it execs,
		298	// so a plain pipe would leave the CHILD holding the write end of its own
		299	// stdin and its `read` would never see the EOF this test closes for.
		300	// The two ends it is given survive anyway, because dup2 clears the flag
		301	// on the descriptor it writes.
		302	const to_child = try std.posix.pipe2(.{ .CLOEXEC = true });
		303	const from_child = try std.posix.pipe2(.{ .CLOEXEC = true });
		304	defer std.posix.close(from_child[0]);
		305	// Written BEFORE the fork, so the word is waiting in the pipe and the
		306	// first read cannot block on this test's own ordering.
		307	try std.testing.expectEqual(@as(usize, 5), try std.posix.write(to_child[1], "ping\n"));
		308	const argv = [_:null]?[*:0]const u8{ "/bin/sh", "-c", "echo $$; read word; echo $word; read hold" };
		309	const pid = try forkDetached("/bin/sh", &argv, to_child[0], from_child[1]);
		310	std.posix.close(to_child[0]);
		311	std.posix.close(from_child[1]);
		312	// To the second newline and no further: the child is holding its stdout
		313	// open on purpose, so a read to EOF here would wait for an exit this test
		314	// has not asked for yet.
		315	var buf: [128]u8 = undefined;
285	var n: usize = 0;	316	var n: usize = 0;
286	while (true) {	317	while (std.mem.count(u8, buf[0..n], "\n") < 2) {
287	const got = try std.posix.read(pipe[0], buf[n..]);	318	const got = try std.posix.read(from_child[0], buf[n..]);
288	if (got == 0) break;	319	if (got == 0) return error.NoOutput;
289	n += got;	320	n += got;
290	}	321	}
		322	const child_sid = libc.getsid(pid);
		323	const own_sid = libc.getsid(0);
		324	// The child's second `read` returns only when this end goes.
		325	std.posix.close(to_child[1]);
291	_ = std.posix.waitpid(pid, 0);	326	_ = std.posix.waitpid(pid, 0);
292	var lines = std.mem.tokenizeScalar(u8, buf[0..n], '\n');	327	var lines = std.mem.tokenizeScalar(u8, buf[0..n], '\n');
293	const sid = lines.next() orelse return error.NoOutput;
294	const shpid = lines.next() orelse return error.NoOutput;	328	const shpid = lines.next() orelse return error.NoOutput;
295	try std.testing.expectEqualStrings(shpid, sid);	329	const echoed = lines.next() orelse return error.NoOutput;
296	try std.testing.expectEqual(pid, try std.fmt.parseInt(std.posix.pid_t, shpid, 10));	330	try std.testing.expectEqual(pid, try std.fmt.parseInt(std.posix.pid_t, shpid, 10));
		331	try std.testing.expectEqualStrings("ping", echoed);
		332	try std.testing.expect(own_sid > 0);
		333	try std.testing.expectEqual(pid, child_sid);
		334	try std.testing.expect(child_sid != own_sid);
297	}	335	}
298		336
299	test "server_os.selfImageStale: a rename over the image's path is stale, an untouched path is not" {	337	test "server_os.selfImageStale: a rename over the image's path is stale, an untouched path is not" {
@@ -383,13 +421,31 @@ test "server_os.sendNoSigNoWait: a closed peer is an error, not a signal" {
383	.flags = 0,	421	.flags = 0,
384	};	422	};
385	std.posix.sigaction(std.posix.SIG.PIPE, &dfl, null);	423	std.posix.sigaction(std.posix.SIG.PIPE, &dfl, null);
386	var csp: [2]std.posix.fd_t = undefined;	424	// Two legs, because "the peer is gone" is two different states to
387	if (std.c.socketpair(std.posix.AF.UNIX, std.posix.SOCK.STREAM, 0, &csp) != 0) exitNow(2);	425	// the kernel and only the second is the one the daemon meets. A
388	std.posix.close(csp[1]);	426	// socket that was NEVER written to and then lost its peer is the
389	_ = sendNoSigNoWait(csp[0], "x") catch \|e\| exitNow(if (e == error.BrokenPipe) 0 else 2);	427	// easy case; a socket that carried frames and then lost its peer
		428	// mid-stream is the pump's own sequence, and on Darwin the two
		429	// differ — the flag that suppresses the signal is a socket option
		430	// there, and a socket the kernel has already shut down refuses to
		431	// take one (see server_os_macos.sendNoSigNoWait). A test that asked
		432	// only the first would pass on an arm that can never arm a live
		433	// socket, and one that asked only the second would pass on an arm
		434	// that only ever works after a successful send.
		435	//
390	// A send that SUCCEEDED to a closed peer is as wrong as one that	436	// A send that SUCCEEDED to a closed peer is as wrong as one that
391	// signalled, and neither is 0.	437	// signalled, and neither is 0.
392	exitNow(2);	438	var gone: [2]std.posix.fd_t = undefined;
		439	if (std.c.socketpair(std.posix.AF.UNIX, std.posix.SOCK.STREAM, 0, &gone) != 0) exitNow(2);
		440	std.posix.close(gone[1]);
		441	if (sendNoSigNoWait(gone[0], "x")) \|_\| exitNow(2) else \|e\| if (e != error.BrokenPipe) exitNow(2);
		442
		443	var live: [2]std.posix.fd_t = undefined;
		444	if (std.c.socketpair(std.posix.AF.UNIX, std.posix.SOCK.STREAM, 0, &live) != 0) exitNow(2);
		445	_ = sendNoSigNoWait(live[0], "x") catch exitNow(2);
		446	std.posix.close(live[1]);
		447	if (sendNoSigNoWait(live[0], "x")) \|_\| exitNow(2) else \|e\| if (e != error.BrokenPipe) exitNow(2);
		448	exitNow(0);
393	}	449	}
394	defer std.posix.close(f.master);	450	defer std.posix.close(f.master);
395	const status = std.posix.waitpid(f.pid, 0).status;	451	const status = std.posix.waitpid(f.pid, 0).status;

src/os/server_os_macos.zig

@@ @@ -0,0 +1,154 @@ @@
+//! Darwin arm of `server_os`. Spellings only; the contract is in the root.
+//! Four operations use a different MECHANISM rather than a different
+//! spelling, because the Linux one does not exist here, and each is
+//! recorded in docs/decisions.md (2026-09-03, "the daemon's Darwin arm"):
+//! `closeFrom` walks the fd table because there is no close_range,
+//! `anonFd` is an unlinked mkstemp file because there is no memfd,
+//! `sendNoSigNoWait` sets SO_NOSIGPIPE on the socket because there is no
+//! MSG_NOSIGNAL, and `peerCred` takes two calls because LOCAL_PEERCRED
+//! answers no pid.
+const std = @import("std");
+const root = @import("server_os.zig");
+const c = @cImport({
+    @cInclude("util.h"); // forkpty
+    @cInclude("sys/ioctl.h");
+    @cInclude("sys/socket.h");
+    @cInclude("sys/un.h"); // LOCAL_PEERPID
+    @cInclude("unistd.h"); // getpeereid, getdtablesize
+    @cInclude("stdlib.h"); // mkstemp
+});
+pub fn getpid() std.posix.pid_t {
+    return std.c.getpid();
+}
+pub fn peerCred(fd: std.posix.socket_t) ?root.PeerCred {
+    // Two calls where Linux has one: Darwin's LOCAL_PEERCRED answers a
+    // `struct xucred` with no pid in it, so the uid comes from getpeereid
+    // and the pid from a socket option of its own.
+    var uid: c.uid_t = undefined;
+    var gid: c.gid_t = undefined;
+    if (c.getpeereid(fd, &uid, &gid) != 0) return null;
+    var pid: c.pid_t = 0;
+    var len: c.socklen_t = @sizeOf(c.pid_t);
+    // SOL_LOCAL is 0 on Darwin; LOCAL_PEERPID answers the peer's pid for a
+    // unix socket the way SO_PEERCRED's pid field does on Linux. The root
+    // rejects a non-positive pid, so a kernel that will not name the peer
+    // reads as "will not say" there rather than as a pid of 0 here.
+    if (c.getsockopt(fd, 0, c.LOCAL_PEERPID, &pid, &len) != 0) return null;
+    return .{ .uid = @intCast(uid), .pid = @intCast(pid) };
+}
+pub fn sendNoSigNoWait(fd: std.posix.socket_t, bytes: []const u8) std.posix.SendError!usize {
+    // Darwin has no MSG_NOSIGNAL: the "do not raise SIGPIPE" bit is a
+    // property of the SOCKET, not of the send. Set per call rather than once
+    // at accept, because every fd that reaches this operation must have it
+    // and there is no one place every such fd is created — an accepted
+    // client, a socketpair end, an adopted fd across an upgrade. The option
+    // is idempotent and costs one setsockopt on a path that is already a
+    // syscall.
+    //
+    // A REFUSED set is the interesting case and must not fall through to
+    // send. Measured 2026-09-03 on macOS 26: Darwin's `sosetopt` rejects
+    // every socket option with EINVAL once a socket is shut down in both
+    // directions, which is exactly the state a hung-up peer leaves behind —
+    // so the one send that would raise the signal is also the one send the
+    // flag cannot be set for. EINVAL here is therefore not an argument
+    // complaint (the level, name, value and length are all fixed above);
+    // it is the kernel saying the peer is gone, which is what `send` would
+    // have answered had it not signalled first. Every other setsockopt
+    // failure — a bad fd, not a socket — describes a socket that cannot
+    // raise SIGPIPE either, so those fall through and let `send` name them.
+    const on: c_int = 1;
+    const rc = c.setsockopt(fd, c.SOL_SOCKET, c.SO_NOSIGPIPE, &on, @sizeOf(c_int));
+    if (rc != 0 and std.posix.errno(rc) == .INVAL) return error.BrokenPipe;
+    return std.posix.send(fd, bytes, std.posix.MSG.DONTWAIT);
+}
+pub fn sockType(fd: std.posix.fd_t) error{NotASocket}!u32 {
+    var t: c_int = undefined;
+    var len: c.socklen_t = @sizeOf(c_int);
+    if (c.getsockopt(fd, c.SOL_SOCKET, c.SO_TYPE, &t, &len) != 0) return error.NotASocket;
+    return @intCast(t);
+}
+pub fn forkPty(ws: root.Winsize) error{ForkPtyFailed}!root.ForkedPty {
+    var master: c_int = undefined;
+    var cws: c.struct_winsize = .{ .ws_row = ws.row, .ws_col = ws.col, .ws_xpixel = 0, .ws_ypixel = 0 };
+    const pid = c.forkpty(&master, null, null, &cws);
+    if (pid < 0) return error.ForkPtyFailed;
+    return .{ .pid = pid, .master = master };
+}
+pub fn exitNow(code: u8) noreturn {
+    // `_exit(2)` and not `exit(3)`: the root's doc says why — atexit and the
+    // stdio flush would write the parent's pending bytes a second time.
+    std.c._exit(code);
+}
+pub fn forkDetached(
+    exe: [*:0]const u8,
+    argv: [*:null]const ?[*:0]const u8,
+    stdin_fd: std.posix.fd_t,
+    out_fd: std.posix.fd_t,
+) error{ForkFailed}!std.posix.pid_t {
+    const pid = std.posix.fork() catch return error.ForkFailed;
+    if (pid != 0) return pid;
+    _ = std.c.setsid();
+    std.posix.dup2(stdin_fd, std.posix.STDIN_FILENO) catch exitNow(127);
+    std.posix.dup2(out_fd, std.posix.STDOUT_FILENO) catch exitNow(127);
+    std.posix.dup2(out_fd, std.posix.STDERR_FILENO) catch exitNow(127);
+    std.posix.execveZ(exe, argv, std.c.environ) catch exitNow(127);
+    unreachable;
+}
+pub fn closeFrom(first: std.posix.fd_t) void {
+    // No close_range on Darwin: one close per slot up to the table size,
+    // which is a few hundred cheap EBADFs once per session start. Between
+    // fork and exec, so nothing else is opening fds underneath the walk.
+    // `getdtablesize` is the soft RLIMIT_NOFILE, which is also the ceiling
+    // on any fd this process could be holding, so the walk cannot miss one.
+    var fd: std.posix.fd_t = first;
+    const top: std.posix.fd_t = c.getdtablesize();
+    while (fd < top) : (fd += 1) _ = std.c.close(fd);
+}
+pub fn ptyMode(master: std.posix.fd_t) std.posix.TermiosGetError!root.PtyMode {
+    // Measured 2026-09-03: Darwin's master answers tcgetattr for the slave's
+    // line discipline, so this is the Linux shape and not a reopen by name.
+    const t = try std.posix.tcgetattr(master);
+    return .{ .icanon = t.lflag.ICANON, .echo = t.lflag.ECHO };
+}
+pub fn ptyFgPgid(master: std.posix.fd_t) error{IoctlFailed}!std.posix.pid_t {
+    var pgid: c.pid_t = 0;
+    if (c.ioctl(master, c.TIOCGPGRP, &pgid) < 0) return error.IoctlFailed;
+    return @intCast(pgid);
+}
+pub fn setWinsize(master: std.posix.fd_t, ws: root.Winsize) error{IoctlFailed}!void {
+    var cws: c.struct_winsize = .{ .ws_row = ws.row, .ws_col = ws.col, .ws_xpixel = 0, .ws_ypixel = 0 };
+    if (c.ioctl(master, c.TIOCSWINSZ, &cws) < 0) return error.IoctlFailed;
+}
+pub fn anonFd(name: [*:0]const u8) error{CarrierFailed}!std.posix.fd_t {
+    // No memfd on Darwin. A 0600 file this uid creates and unlinks before
+    // anyone could open it by name is private by mode where memfd is
+    // private by having no name; the window is the two calls below, on an
+    // empty file. /tmp rather than the runtime dir because this file
+    // imports nothing of ours and must not learn the socket directory.
+    var tmpl: [128]u8 = undefined;
+    const t = std.fmt.bufPrintZ(&tmpl, "/tmp/mux-{s}-XXXXXX", .{std.mem.span(name)}) catch return error.CarrierFailed;
+    const fd = c.mkstemp(t.ptr);
+    if (fd < 0) return error.CarrierFailed;
+    errdefer std.posix.close(fd);
+    // mkstemp fills the XXXXXX in place, so the name to unlink is `t` as it
+    // reads now and not the template that was printed into it.
+    std.posix.unlink(t) catch return error.CarrierFailed;
+    // mkstemp opens O_CLOEXEC on modern Darwin; the candidate must inherit
+    // the carrier across `mux d upgrade`'s exec, so the flag comes back off.
+    const flags = std.posix.fcntl(fd, std.posix.F.GETFD, 0) catch return error.CarrierFailed;
+    _ = std.posix.fcntl(fd, std.posix.F.SETFD, flags & ~@as(usize, std.posix.FD_CLOEXEC)) catch
+        return error.CarrierFailed;
+    return fd;
+}

Old		New
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ a symbol by its FILE stem (`wall_pump.askOn`) — a file, not a module.
60	\| `src/client/` \| `client` — `client_core` `hosts` `handoff` `layout` `keymap` `askpass` · `webhub` · `wasm_core` `client_core_wasm_check` (wasm roots the build wires outside the table) \|	60	\| `src/client/` \| `client` — `client_core` `hosts` `handoff` `layout` `keymap` `askpass` · `webhub` · `wasm_core` `client_core_wasm_check` (wasm roots the build wires outside the table) \|
61	\| `src/tui/` \| `wall`(`wallview.zig`) — `interact` `paint` `select` `predict` `wall_host` `wall_picker` `wall_pump` `wall_layout` `wall_test_*` \|	61	\| `src/tui/` \| `wall`(`wallview.zig`) — `interact` `paint` `select` `predict` `wall_host` `wall_picker` `wall_pump` `wall_layout` `wall_test_*` \|
62	\| `src/cli/` \| `mux`(dispatch) — `main`(daemon) `mux_main`(client) `webhub_main`(hub) · `agent`(`muxa.zig`) · `cliflags`(`flags.zig`) \|	62	\| `src/cli/` \| `mux`(dispatch) — `main`(daemon) `mux_main`(client) `webhub_main`(hub) · `agent`(`muxa.zig`) · `cliflags`(`flags.zig`) \|
63	\| `src/os/` \| `server_os`(`server_os.zig`) — `server_os_linux` · `client_os`(`client_os.zig`) — `client_os_linux` · `spawn` — the platform layer, one row per side so the client never links a fork or a pty; imports nothing of ours (spec 2026-09-03) \|	63	\| `src/os/` \| `server_os`(`server_os.zig`) — `server_os_linux` `server_os_macos` · `client_os`(`client_os.zig`) — `client_os_linux` · `spawn` — the platform layer, one row per side so the client never links a fork or a pty; imports nothing of ours (spec 2026-09-03) \|
64	\| `src/` \| `xdg` `sockpath` `dial` `link` `serve` `proxy` `quic` `testtmp` — what both sides link; `dial` is the client side of a daemon socket and `link` the live connection under it whatever reached it (fd, handoff stdio, QUIC), `serve` the right to bind a socket path and the duty to unlink it, `term` and nothing else under them \|	64	\| `src/` \| `xdg` `sockpath` `dial` `link` `serve` `proxy` `quic` `testtmp` — what both sides link; `dial` is the client side of a daemon socket and `link` the live connection under it whatever reached it (fd, handoff stdio, QUIC), `serve` the right to bind a socket path and the duty to unlink it, `term` and nothing else under them \|
65		65
66	The grouping itself is a convention now, not a gate: the table wires the	66	The grouping itself is a convention now, not a gate: the table wires the
@@ -75,15 +75,15 @@ one: no file under `src/` at all may spell `"/bin/sh"` or `"-c"`, because
75	every program mux runs is exec'd as argv and no shell of ours parses a line	75	every program mux runs is exec'd as argv and no shell of ours parses a line
76	we built; its three markers are `flags.zig`, `main.zig` and	76	we built; its three markers are `flags.zig`, `main.zig` and
77	`server_test_session.zig`, and two of the three cover prose and a fixture	77	`server_test_session.zig`, and two of the three cover prose and a fixture
78	rather than a shell the product runs. Rule 6 is the one `posix.fork` site,	78	rather than a shell the product runs. Rule 6 is the `posix.fork` site, one
79	and it names its file in `except` rather than in the file. The three keep	79	per OS arm, and it names those files in `except` rather than in the files.
80	their numbers because the in-file `folder rule N exemption:` lines cite them	80	The three keep their numbers because the in-file `folder rule N exemption:` lines cite them
81	by number. Rule 7 is the platform ban: `std.os.linux`, `/proc`, `memfd`,	81	by number. Rule 7 is the platform ban: `std.os.linux`, `/proc`, `memfd`,
82	`close_range`, `exit_group`, the `SO_PEERCRED` socket option, the two	82	`close_range`, `exit_group`, the `SO_PEERCRED` socket option, the two
83	Linux-only pty ioctls and `MSG_NOSIGNAL` may appear only under `src/os/`,	83	Linux-only pty ioctls and `MSG_NOSIGNAL` may appear only under `src/os/`,
84	comments included —	84	comments included —
85	the roots `server_os.zig` and `client_os.zig` are the contract and their	85	the roots `server_os.zig` and `client_os.zig` are the contract and their
86	`_linux` children the spellings (spec 2026-09-03). Rule 4's three remaining	86	per-OS children the spellings (spec 2026-09-03). Rule 4's three remaining
87	debts are the markers in `engine.zig`, `protocol.zig` and `keymap.zig`, each	87	debts are the markers in `engine.zig`, `protocol.zig` and `keymap.zig`, each
88	of which produces VT bytes by contract.	88	of which produces VT bytes by contract.
89	`predict.zig` sits under `src/tui/` with the rest of the wall, so the overlay	89	`predict.zig` sits under `src/tui/` with the rest of the wall, so the overlay
@@ -305,10 +305,12 @@ own. Test fixtures in `test/`:
305	a daemon on someone else's box that nothing reports.	305	a daemon on someone else's box that nothing reports.
306	- The daemon starts itself, and it execs THIS image. `mux d start` IS	306	- The daemon starts itself, and it execs THIS image. `mux d start` IS
307	the daemon in the foreground; `-d` is the flag that forks one, and	307	the daemon in the foreground; `-d` is the flag that forks one, and
308	`server_os_linux.forkDetached` is the only `posix.fork` under `src/`, and	308	`forkDetached` is the only `posix.fork` under `src/` — one spelling per OS
309	`main.forkDaemon` is its one caller — build.zig's	309	arm, `server_os_linux.forkDetached` and `server_os_macos.forkDetached` —
310	folder rule 6, whose `except` names the one file. Every other starter	310	and `main.forkDaemon` is its one caller, through the `server_os` root.
311	spells the argv and execs: `endpoint --start` calls in-process, the	311	build.zig's folder rule 6 names those arm files in `except`, so a third
		312	file that forks is still caught. Every other starter spells the argv and
		313	execs: `endpoint --start` calls in-process, the
312	local client's entry runs `mux d start -d --sock PATH` with its own fd 2	314	local client's entry runs `mux d start -d --sock PATH` with its own fd 2
313	lent to it, so the daemon's refusals reach the user in the daemon's own	315	lent to it, so the daemon's refusals reach the user in the daemon's own
314	words. The fork execs `spawn.selfExe` — the running image,	316	words. The fork execs `spawn.selfExe` — the running image,