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Implements remaining-work item I06: typed file operations and filesystem watches. Report: docs/lanes/tl-i06.md.

API

  • Loop::fs(FsRequest, Token): Open, OpenDir, Close, Read and Write (positional or at the cursor), Sync, Truncate, Stat/Lstat/Fstat, paged ReadDir, Mkdir, Rmdir, Unlink, Rename, Link, Symlink, ReadLink, RealPath, Access, Chmod, Chown, SetTimes and CopyFile.
    • Results are OpResult::Fs(FsResult); a handle only appears after a successful open.
    • Metadata is leased from per-loop storage (zero allocation in steady state).
    • New ErrorKinds: PermissionDenied, AlreadyExists, NotADirectory, IsADirectory, DirectoryNotEmpty.
  • Loop::fs_watch(path, WatchOptions { recursive }, token) and fs_watch_stop: batches of rename/change events with relative names, plus an overflow flag when events were lost (libuv semantics).

Platforms

  • Native files: the shared bounded pool with a FIFO per handle; the pool slot is reserved before the request is accepted. DESIGN D8 is updated: Windows per-handle workers remain only for adopted stdio and handles.
  • Watches:
    • Linux: inotify on the loop's epoll.
    • BSD/iOS: kqueue vnode events.
    • macOS: kqueue for files and FSEvents for directories. FSEvents' OS-owned dispatch queue is the one exception, documented in §5a.4.
    • Windows: ReadDirectoryChangesW on the loop's completion port.
  • WASI 0.2/0.3: wasi:filesystem relative to preopens, inside turn under the event budget. RealPath, Chmod, Chown, permission-bit Access and watches are Unsupported.
  • Web: Unsupported.

I01 interaction (§10 rule 3)

  • WASI path requests accepted by the backend count as native operations, so queued posts can't starve them. A regression confirms it: without the fix, path requests were still pending after 480k turns.
  • Native pool requests stay non-native, like blocking-pool results, so pool-only pending work makes no OS call.

Verification

  • Tests: real bytes and metadata, permission errors, close/cancel ordering and exactly-once completion, pool backpressure, loop drop, watch ordering and recursion, overflow, and zero-allocation gates (native files, native watch batches, WASI 0.2/0.3 release).
  • Local: macOS native and WASI 0.2/0.3 runtime pass, plus strict clippy for native, Linux, Windows, wasip2, wasip3 and web. Linux and Windows runtime run in this PR's CI.
  • Existing tests: no assertion removed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added typed filesystem operations for reading, writing, metadata, directory management, links, permissions, timestamps, and file copying.
    • Added filesystem handles with cancellation, FIFO request handling, pooled buffers, and detailed portable errors.
    • Added filesystem watches with directory/file monitoring, recursive options, event batches, overflow reporting, and stop controls.
    • Added native support across Unix, macOS, Windows, and WASI 0.2/0.3 platforms.
  • Documentation
    • Documented filesystem execution, platform support, watch behavior, and WASI capability rules.

Ralph Küpper and others added 10 commits September 15, 2026 07:15
…S verified)

Replace the partial checkpoint with a typed FsRequest surface (open, opendir,
close, read/write positional and cursor, sync, truncate, stat/fstat/lstat,
readdir pages, mkdir, rmdir, unlink, rename, link, symlink, readlink, realpath,
access, chmod, chown, set times, copy file) served by a per-loop service on
the shared blocking pool with per-handle FIFOs and queue reservations.
Watches use loop-registered native sources: inotify on epoll, EVFILT_VNODE on
kqueue, FSEvents for macOS directories. Restore LANE_REPORT.md from main.
… completions small

Shared WASI filesystem core (bounded in-poll execution, per-handle FIFO,
cancellation before execution, preopen-only path resolution) with the 0.2
binding surface. Reads lower directly into caller memory. The Wasmtime runner
preopens a fresh /turnloop-fs directory for the contracts.
Every 0.3 filesystem import is lowered with its canonical layout and completed
on a private waitable set with the caller's stack context preserved; generated
bindings trap in debug on the pinned toolchain (get-directories reproduces it
outside turnloop). File bytes stream directly into caller memory, so the typed
request allocation gate also holds on 0.3 (release).
…nal cleanup

DESIGN D8 now states that typed file requests share the bounded pool on every
native platform and that Windows per-handle workers remain only for adopted
synchronous handles. §5a.4 lists FSEvents' dispatch queue as an OS-owned thread;
§6 and §7.6 describe the fs and watch surface.
…to lane/tl-i06

Conflicts: driver Op keeps both the typed-filesystem flag and I01's native flag;
allocations.rs keeps both the filesystem/watch gates and the Windows sync-worker
gate.
Requests a backend executes (WASI filesystem, including path requests) are
native operations, so queued posts cannot starve them; pool-backed requests
remain queued work. Adds a driver regression and a contract that serves path,
open and handle requests under a post before every turn (fails without the flag
on wasm32-wasip2). Filesystem assertions use os_waits for blocking waits and
discovery_polls for zero-timeout polls; the watch no-spin check counts turns
without any native call.
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Typed filesystem requests, native and WASI filesystem execution, filesystem watches, bounded event buffering, public filesystem result types, and cross-platform contract tests were added. Native requests use FIFO admission and pooled execution. WASI requests execute during loop polling.

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Filesystem runtime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Filesystem API and driver routing
crates/turnloop/src/fs/*, crates/turnloop/src/driver.rs, crates/turnloop/src/backend/mod.rs, crates/turnloop/src/completion.rs, crates/turnloop/src/types.rs, crates/turnloop/src/blocking.rs
The public filesystem request, result, metadata, path, directory-record, and watch types are added. Driver routing supports pool, backend, and unsupported filesystem modes. Filesystem completions and portable error categories are added.
Native filesystem execution
crates/turnloop/src/fs/service.rs, crates/turnloop/src/fs/unix.rs, crates/turnloop/src/fs/windows.rs
Native filesystem requests use per-handle FIFO queues, cancellation, pooled read leases, and platform-specific system-call implementations.
WASI filesystem execution
crates/turnloop/src/backend/wasi_fs.rs, crates/turnloop/src/backend/wasi_p2/*, crates/turnloop/src/backend/wasi_p3/*
WASI 0.2 and 0.3 implement the shared filesystem contract with preopen-only path resolution, event budgets, cancellation, buffer waiting, and binding-specific filesystem operations.
Loop-integrated filesystem watches
crates/turnloop/src/backend/watch.rs, crates/turnloop/src/backend/fsevents.rs, crates/turnloop/src/backend/iocp/watch.rs, crates/turnloop/src/fs/watch.rs
Filesystem watches use inotify, kqueue, macOS FSEvents, and Windows ReadDirectoryChangesW. Watch events use bounded record rings, pooled leases, cancellation, and overflow reporting.
Conformance and platform validation
crates/turnloop-contract/*, docs/lanes/tl-i06.md, scripts/ci/wasmtime-runner.sh
Contract tests cover filesystem operations, cancellation, queue limits, leases, watches, WASI capability scope, and allocation behavior. WASI tests use a /turnloop-fs preopen. The implementation report documents platform coverage and verification results.

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The new filesystem API can silently destroy a file's contents when a copy targets the same file, reporting success while the data is gone. Appending to a file on the WASI backend also leaves the file position stale, so a following read or write can operate at the wrong offset, and the documented permission-copying behavior is not provided there. These should be corrected before merging.

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…ds through fresh handles

Pool workers now report the end of thread startup and the first submission
returns only after every worker has started. Startup is asynchronous and, on
Windows, std allocates in the new thread (thread name as UTF-16, thread-local
destructor list), which overlapped the first measured requests.

The Windows watch allocation gate wrote through a long-lived handle, which NTFS
does not report to ReadDirectoryChangesW until the handle is flushed or closed.
It now appends, flushes and closes a handle per round through CreateFileW with
a path prepared before measurement, like the Unix reopen and the watch contract.
…itten

On Windows CI the head write was running on a pool thread when close cancelled
it: it ran to completion and reported Cancelled, as D8 specifies. The contract
now accepts complete or absent content for a cancelled write, never partial.

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In `@crates/turnloop/src/backend/wasi_fs.rs`:
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to the same file, including hard-link aliases, before opening the destination
with truncation; reject the operation without modifying either file, while
preserving normal copying for distinct files.
- Around line 431-432: Update the append branch in the relevant Api method so a
successful A::append advances cursor to the resulting file position before
returning FsOutput::Wrote. Make Api::append expose that position, or retrieve
the final size without turning a successful write into an error, while
preserving existing append behavior.

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if *append {
return A::append(descriptor, appender, bytes).map(FsOutput::Wrote);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Update the cursor after an append write.

A::append writes at the file end, but this branch leaves cursor unchanged. If a caller appends to an existing file and then reads with offset: None, the read starts at the stale cursor instead of the post-write file position.

Make Api::append return the resulting file position, or obtain the final size without converting a successful mutation into a failure.

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In `@crates/turnloop/src/backend/wasi_fs.rs` around lines 431 - 432, Update the
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write: true,
create: true,
exclusive,
truncate: !exclusive,

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔴 Critical | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Prevent CopyFile from truncating its source.

When from and to identify the same file and exclusive is false, this target open truncates the file. The subsequent source read returns EOF, so the operation reports success after destroying the source contents. A hard-link alias has the same risk.

Reject identical files before truncation, or stage the copy through a temporary file and replace the destination safely.

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/// Modification time update.
modified: TimeChange,
},
/// Copy file contents (and permissions), failing on an existing destination if exclusive.

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clarify the CopyFile permission contract.

This documentation promises permission copying for every backend. The WASI implementation cannot read or apply mode bits and creates the destination with host-default permissions.

Limit this guarantee to supported native backends, or implement equivalent WASI behavior.

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In `@crates/turnloop/src/fs/mod.rs` at line 430, Update the CopyFile documentation
to limit the permission-copying guarantee to native backends that support
reading and applying mode bits, accurately noting the WASI limitation and
host-default destination permissions.

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