Keep a run-scoped evidence owner from acquisition through settlement and
cleanup retry. Bind token observations to native generations and retain
related generations and unresolved identity lookups across table omissions,
reparenting and process-group changes without treating PID hints as authority.
Use native effective UID facts for withholding decisions, corroborate Linux
procfs absence, and share the Linux stat parser with sampling and debugger
identity checks. Signal only after current token and group revalidation.
Complete swept cleanup across all groups with one bounded final family check;
retain unresolved owners and successful-peer completion across retries.
Validation: npm run check, docs:check and test discovery passed. Focused
ownership/consumer coverage totals 513 passed and 1 skipped across 35 files,
including the corrected Electron cancellation test rerun independently. Darwin helper compilation, real
owned Node child cleanup, CLI/MCP capture and retained cleanup retries ran.
Real Electron applications, native Linux races/PID reuse and Windows cleanup
were not qualified. The original Linux reports remain open for that work.
Fixes#5238
Refs #4322, #5206
observeSettlement classified a group as alive_at_deadline when the settlement
budget expired after one empty observation, though no live member was ever
seen. Track observed liveness and return unverifiable when the deadline ends
observation with only empty rounds. The two-consecutive-empty rule for
quiesced is unchanged, and the cleanup_outcome projection for non-quiesced
settlements stays cleaned.
Fixes#2170.
morluto