Define the spawn-time handoff a job process consumes before any
application code runs: two inherited descriptors named by
SWACTOR_ARENA_FD and SWACTOR_WAKE_FD, and a fixed 48-byte little-endian
header at arena offset 0 naming one control-ring region.
- Canonical header layout, shared parser, and a host writer that leases
the header region and control ring disjointly under the arena's own
placement law, zeroes the ring, stamps its generation, and returns the
handoff (env map, inheritable arena and wake descriptors, host wake
eventfd) only after every write completes.
- Python binding gains swactor.run(main): map the arena read-only, take
ground truth from fstat, validate through the shared parser, arm
FD_CLOEXEC on the wake descriptor, close the arena descriptor after
mapping, and drive main on asyncio with Context.data carrying the
resolved state. Fail-fast BootstrapError before main on any defect.
- Rewrite jobs/tiny_linear_inference.py against the approved path API and
record the slice, invariants, and remaining bridge work in the handoff
doc.
Verified with 12 new data-plane bootstrap guarantee tests (parser defect
table, fuzzed pages, writer round-trip), 29 binding tests across
in-process and exec boundaries, and full data-plane and iroh-driver
suites with no regressions.
Zachery Aaron Shores-Chmielewski
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