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🐛 fix: postbox install waits for bootout, and status counts the daemon's open files - #89
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…n's open files The postbox daemon stopped answering (RESOURCE_BUSY, "Too many open files") because `am` 0.3.36 leaks sqlite handles on its store — 234 of 258 open after five days — and this machine's LaunchAgent predated the 4096 limit, so it still ran on launchd's 256. Nothing said so: status reported the daemon loaded and answering right up to the failure. `status` now prints open handles against the limit the installed plist actually carries, names a plist that predates the limit, and warns past 80%. And rerunning `postbox install` to pick the limit up failed with "Bootstrap failed: 5: Input/output error", leaving nothing loaded: bootout returns before launchd has torn the job down, and the bootstrap landed in that window. It now waits (up to 5 s) for the job to be gone. Reported by the eda-tools session over postbox. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The postbox daemon stopped answering with
RESOURCE_BUSY/ "Too many open files". Two causes:am0.3.36 leaks sqlite handles on its store. The eda-tools session found 234 of 258 handles open after five days.Nothing warned before it failed.
postbox statusnow prints afiles:line: open handles against the limit in the installed plist. It names a plist that predates the limit and warns past 80%.postbox installnow waits forlaunchctl bootoutto finish beforebootstrap. Rerunning install to pick up the limit failed with "Bootstrap failed: 5: Input/output error" and left the job unloaded. Bootout returns before launchd has torn the job down, and the bootstrap landed in that window.Verified
bats tests/postbox.bats: 53 pass, including 2 new tests (bootout wait ordering; files line with current, over-80% and stale-plist cases).postbox statuson this machine:files: 76 open of 4096. That's up from 32 fifteen minutes earlier, so the leak is still active.amproject: not filed.🤖 Generated with Claude Code