[Mavrick-F]

Summary

Preferences use the shared atomic writer, with a unique temporary file and a synced replacement. Malformed settings are copied to an exclusively created private recovery file before replacement; concurrent writers cannot overwrite another recovery copy.

Identical recovery copies are reused across failed-save retries. If their bytes match but syncing fails, the save returns that error immediately and retains the same recovery slot. Recovery files remain reserved after copy or sync errors, because another writer may already have verified and reused one; the error identifies the retained copy as possibly incomplete. When all nine names are occupied without a verifiable identical copy, saving refuses and preserves the current file. Recovery copies the exact snapshot that failed parsing, even if another process replaces the destination before recovery begins. A save parses one read result: I/O errors preserve the file, and only successfully read malformed bytes permit recovery. Invalid UTF-8 is recovered byte for byte; on Unix, recovery and replacement directory entries are synced before success. Read/write failures appear in the app, and a failed replacement reports the recovery path. Equivalent failures are suppressed; a changed recovery path or replacement outcome produces a new notice. Concurrent app processes still use last-writer-wins whole-file saves: this PR does not serialize their read/modify/write sequences or merge their settings updates. Lost-update handling between running copies remains the original scope exclusion and needs separate coordination.

Testing

Passed cargo xtask ci, the rustgis-web WebAssembly build, and all pre-commit hooks on e5a25f93 (5,360 tests passed, 0 failed, 22 ignored). Regressions cover preserved settings, recovery-copy reuse across retries, malformed non-UTF-8 bytes, full recovery slots, clean saves and failure-notice deduplication. The retry regression also checks reuse of a Linux recovery copy protected with mode 0444. The merge retains upstream #1698, so the earlier decoder-test workaround is superseded and there is no remaining popupmedia change against main. A final-directory-sync regression verifies the replacement is visible while its durability remains unconfirmed; the desktop notice covers failures before and after replacement. A desktop regression also verifies that a notice queued during frame work requests another frame, with clean and drained queues returning to idle. The recovery-race regression interleaves a successful second writer before the creator reports a sync failure and checks that the recovered bytes remain available. The desktop regression checks changed failure details are delivered while equivalent failures stay quiet. All six focused preferences tests passed, including two repeated sync failures followed by successful reuse without creating a second recovery file. An injected transient-read regression verifies that valid settings stay unchanged without a recovery copy, and a later successful save preserves other keys. The exact-snapshot regression keeps the bytes that failed parsing when the destination already contains a newer valid save, and verifies reuse of that recovery copy. Windows/macOS CI is requested on this head.

UI evidence

Inspected actual app notices:

Before:

After (replacement completed, durability unconfirmed):

Windows/macOS CI requested for these filesystem paths. Built on the merged atomic-write fix; managed preference writes replace the final link.

Related issue

Found during the project-file lifecycle review; no separate issue.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • The app displays notices when preferences cannot be read or saved, or when a malformed file is set aside.
  • Malformed preference files can be preserved as recovery copies before a save replaces them.
• Bug Fixes
  • Preference files with invalid text encoding are handled as malformed files.
  • Preference saves use atomic replacement to help prevent incomplete files.
  • Repeated notices for the same consecutive save failure are suppressed; a successful save resets suppression. Setting aside a malformed file clears its unreadable-file notice.

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Walkthrough

The preference writer parses files as bytes, preserves readable malformed files in recovery slots, and returns an optional recovery path. The app queues notices for preference read and save results, then sends them to the session during frame processing.

Changes: Preference recovery and notices

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Preference write and recovery crates/engine/src/prefs.rs	read_at parses preference files from bytes. Write functions return an optional recovery path, preserve malformed files in recovery slots, and use atomic replacement with sync. Tests cover recovery-slot exhaustion, returned paths, malformed bytes, backup reuse, and sync failures.
Preference notice state and callbacks apps/rustgis/src/main.rs	The app queues notices for unreadable preferences, failed saves, and files moved aside. Save callbacks pass write results to the notice handler, which suppresses repeated failure notices until a successful save.
Session delivery and notice tests apps/rustgis/src/main.rs	The app drains queued notices during frame processing and sends them as session error notifications. Tests cover repaint scheduling, failure suppression, and set-aside notices.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

• opengeos/RustGIS#1405: This change preserves malformed preference contents in recovery files, but does not add version-aware handling for unsupported settings.

Possibly related PRs

• opengeos/RustGIS#1094: This change updates the preferences writer used to save shortcut overrides.
• opengeos/RustGIS#1037: This change extends the desktop preferences writer introduced by that PR.
• opengeos/RustGIS#896: This change hardens the preference reads and writes used to persist the autosave interval.

Suggested reviewers: deniial00, giswqs

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to e5a25

No actionable merge-blocking issue remains in the supplied evidence. Normal checks can determine merge readiness.

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_{A rabbit checks the settings file,
And saves the bytes in slots awhile.
A notice joins the window’s flow,
When reads or saves meet trouble, so.
Fresh saves clear the warning queue.}

[github-actions]

Bug (medium confidence): a failed save burns a recovery slot per attempt.

If the malformed file is set aside but the replacement then fails (for example a read-only target on Windows, or a sync/rename error), the malformed file is still there. The next save_pref call takes this branch again and set_aside copies it to yet another prefs.json.badN. Each user change that fails adds a full duplicate. After nine failures, every save is refused with "all 9 … occupied", even though the recovery copies all hold the same bytes.

Possible fix: before creating a new recovery file, compare the malformed bytes with the newest existing .bad copy and reuse it if they match. Alternatively, set the file aside at most once per process. A test would go here: fail the replacement after a set-aside, save again, and assert that no new .bad file appears.

[Mavrick-F]

Fixed in 360a5a0. Before allocating another slot, recovery compares existing regular copies in bounded chunks and reuses an identical synced copy. The regression preserves the same malformed original more than nine times and verifies that only its existing recovery name is used. Targeted regressions, full native CI, the WebAssembly build and all pre-commit hooks passed.

[github-actions]

Behaviour gap (low confidence, design question): a non-UTF-8 preferences file is never set aside.

std::fs::read_to_string fails on invalid UTF-8, so the guard on line 52 is false and this arm returns the error. Saving is then refused on every attempt, and the window says "Settings can't be saved (could not read preferences: …)". The user has no recovery path from inside the app, although the PR describes malformed settings as being copied aside. Overwriting is avoided, which is the safe part. Please decide whether such a file should be treated as malformed (set aside and replaced), and if it should stay refused, say so in the PR text and the notice.

[Mavrick-F]

Fixed in 360a5a0. Preferences are parsed from bytes, so invalid UTF-8 is treated as malformed JSON and preserved byte for byte before replacement. Genuine read errors still refuse saving. The regression verifies exact recovery bytes and a successful replacement. Targeted regressions, full native CI, the WebAssembly build and all pre-commit hooks passed.

[github-actions]

AGENTS.md (medium confidence): the failed-save notice has no count.

AGENTS.md asks for "one notice per kind with a count" and for saying "what, how much and where". This notice is deduplicated to one per run of failures, but it does not say how many settings weren't saved, or which ones. The count could be kept in FAILING (for example an AtomicU32 of skipped saves) and reported when a save finally works, or included in the notice text. The test on lines 146–166 should then assert the count.

[Mavrick-F]

The warning covers the whole settings store: changes last only until the app closes, while the existing file is preserved. Repeated failed attempts can update the same key, so their count would not tell the user how many distinct settings are unsaved. Keeping one error per failure episode avoids repeated warnings without presenting a misleading loss count.

[github-actions]

Code review

Bugs

• A failed save after a malformed file is set aside burns one recovery slot per attempt. The malformed file stays in place, so each later save copies it again to a new prefs.json.badN. After nine failures, saving is refused even though the copies are identical. crates/engine/src/prefs.rs:52, medium confidence.
• A non-UTF-8 preferences file is never set aside. read_to_string fails, so saving is refused with no in-app recovery path. This is a design question as much as a bug, and it is low confidence. crates/engine/src/prefs.rs:53.

Security

• None found. The recovery copy is created with create_new and mode 0600 on Unix, and it is not written through symlinks.

Performance

• None significant. Saves are user-initiated, so the extra fsync on the UI thread is a one-off stall.

Quality

• The failed-save notice has no count or setting names, so the user can't tell how much was lost. This is listed under AGENTS.md below.
• Nits, left for the release quality pass: the saved doc comment wording, the KEPT_BAD name, the double read_to_string in write_at, the test directories left behind on panic, and the main.rs test that depends on the global NOTICES being empty. Nothing here is a bug.

AGENTS.md

• The "one notice per kind with a count" rule is not met. The save-failure notice is deduplicated to one per run but gives no count of the settings that weren't saved. apps/rustgis/src/main.rs:100, medium confidence.
• The crash-safety tests and the notice path are otherwise in line with the rules: no unwrap in non-test code, Notice goes through Session::notify, text uses i18n::fmt, and the wasm build is not affected (the Unix-only code is cfg-gated).

Prior concerns

• None. The PR has no existing review threads, so I left none alone.

Verified by reading

• The replace_atomic path (unique temp name, sync_all, symlink handling) and the i18n::fmt signature.
• The save_pref call sites, all of which are user-driven rather than per-frame.
• The test coverage: full recovery slots, repeated malformed files, clean saves, and notice deduplication. There is no test for a replacement that fails after a set-aside, which is the path behind the slot-burning finding.

Change size

Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base f62c795 to PR head 131d855).

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Files changed	2 (0 added, 2 modified, 0 removed, 0 renamed)
Size before	40.2 KB
Size after	48.3 KB
Total size change	+8.1 KB

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apps/rustgis/src/main.rs	34.1 KB	38.5 KB	+4.4 KB
crates/engine/src/prefs.rs	6.1 KB	9.8 KB	+3.7 KB

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Review comments at @crates/engine/src/prefs.rs:
- Around line 89-94: Update set_aside to sync the containing directory on Unix
after syncing the recovery file and before returning Ok(target), so the recovery
file’s directory entry is durable before the original can be replaced. Preserve
the existing copy and error handling, and use the established
directory-resolution conventions rather than introducing a new path policy.
- Line 52: Update the malformed-file check in write_at to verify filesystem
readability as bytes rather than requiring valid UTF-8, while retaining the
is_file guard and set_aside recovery path so permission errors and directories
remain protected. Add a test that writes invalid UTF-8 bytes to the preferences
file and verifies recovery through set_aside.
- Around line 143-159: Update the recovery tests in prefs.rs, including
full_recovery_slots_leave_the_malformed_file_and_every_backup_unchanged and its
neighboring test, to pre-clean their process-specific temporary directories and
use a drop guard that removes them on both success and failure. Keep each test’s
existing assertions and recovery behavior unchanged.

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[Mavrick-F]

Fixed the recovery-slot and invalid-UTF-8 issues in 360a5a0: identical recovery copies are reused, malformed bytes are preserved exactly, and Unix directory entries are synced before replacement. Regressions, full native CI, WebAssembly and hooks passed.

The Windows/macOS failures on the previous head came from an existing decoder test assuming BMP/TIFF features were disabled. Its assertion now follows enabled decoder features while retaining exact expected errors; both feature configurations passed locally. Platform CI is rerunning on this head.

The whole-store save-failure notice remains deduplicated per failure episode. An attempt count would not identify distinct unsaved settings, and the failed attempt preserves the stored file; the separate inline reply explains that decision. The remaining documentation, naming, repeated-read and test-cleanup nits are left for the release quality pass.

[github-actions]

Bug (medium-low confidence): a read-only recovery copy is never reused, so retries burn slots again.

same_contents opens the existing .bad file with write(true). If the user has made a recovery copy read-only (mode 0444 on Unix), the open fails with EACCES. unwrap_or(false) then treats it as different, so each retry of a failed save creates another prefs.json.badN. That is the slot-burning problem this PR is meant to fix, reappearing for a file the user chose to protect.

sync_all works on a read-only descriptor on Linux and macOS, so on Unix the copy can be opened read-only. Windows' FlushFileBuffers needs write access, so keep write(true) there.

A regression test would make a recovery copy read-only, fail a save after set-aside, save again, and assert that no new .bad file appears.

[Mavrick-F]

Fixed in c15a91b. Linux opens existing recovery copies read-only, so an identical copy protected with mode 0444 is still compared, synced and reused. Other platforms retain their existing write access for flushing. The retry regression now protects the Linux copy and verifies repeated reuse without consuming another slot. Targeted preferences tests, full native CI, WebAssembly and all hooks passed.

[github-actions]

Minor (performance): this guard reads the whole malformed file into memory a second time, only to learn whether it is readable. read_at has already done that once. An open is enough, since is_file() already excludes directories:

Suggested change

	Err(_) if path.is_file() && std::fs::read(path).is_ok() => (Map::new(), Some(set_aside(path)?)),
	Err(_) if path.is_file() && std::fs::File::open(path).is_ok() => (Map::new(), Some(set_aside(path)?)),

Behaviour is unchanged: a permission error still falls through to the Err arm, so the file is not overwritten.

[Mavrick-F]

This repeated-read optimization is left for the release quality pass. The current path verifies that the bytes were readable before treating a parse failure as recoverable; an open alone does not establish that a subsequent read succeeds.

[github-actions]

Quality (scope, medium-high confidence): this test change is unrelated to the preferences work in the PR title and body, and the PR text does not mention it. The reason given is real (feature unification can enable BMP/TIFF reading), so keep the fix, but split it into its own PR or name it in the description.

It also weakens the test. The expected value is computed with format.reading_enabled(), the same condition decode depends on, so the test mirrors the implementation rather than pinning its behaviour. Two explicit cases, one per feature state, would check the mapping directly.

[Mavrick-F]

The current PR description already discloses the decoder regression and its two feature configurations. Upstream has now merged #1698, which makes picture-format support explicit and updates this same test. I resolved the integration conflict by retaining that upstream file exactly, so the preferences branch will have no popupmedia delta against its merged main parent. The original feature-aware test workaround is superseded.

[github-actions]

Quality / test coverage (AGENTS.md "test both ways", medium-low confidence): the new startup notice is not covered. Nothing exercises read() pushing Notice::Unreadable, and nothing checks that saved(Ok(Some(..))) removes a waiting Unreadable (the retain on line 93). This test pushes SetAside directly, so the retain never runs against a waiting Unreadable.

A short addition would close it: push an Unreadable the way read() does, call saved(Ok(Some(path))), and assert that only SetAside remains.

[Mavrick-F]

This is additional coverage for working notice behavior: startup queues Unreadable, and saved(Ok(Some(path))) removes it before queuing SetAside. Existing tests cover clean saves, failed-save suppression and recovery-path delivery. The additional queued-startup-notice assertion is left for the release quality pass.

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Code review

Bugs

• A read-only recovery copy (0444) can't be opened for writing in same_contents, so it is never reused. Each retry of a failed save then burns another prefs.json.badN slot, the problem this PR fixes. Medium-low confidence. Inline comment posted (crates/engine/src/prefs.rs:142).
• A crash partway through copying a recovery file leaves a short prefs.json.badN that is never removed and never reused, because its length differs from the source. It permanently occupies one of the nine slots. Low confidence; not posted inline.

Security

• No issues found. Recovery copies are created with mode 0600 on Unix, the notices carry no file contents, and the new paths don't follow symlinks.

Performance

• write_at reads the whole malformed file a second time just to check it is readable. Minor. Inline suggestion posted (crates/engine/src/prefs.rs:53).

Quality

• The popupmedia.rs test change is unrelated to the PR title and body and isn't disclosed in the description. It also makes the expectation mirror the reading_enabled() condition inside decode. Medium-high confidence. Inline comment posted (crates/ui-egui/src/popupmedia.rs:557).
• Nits, left unposted: the NotSaved text repeats the prefix (Settings can't be saved (could not save preferences: …)). write_at also checks path.is_file() and then does a second read, which the suggestion above simplifies.

AGENTS.md

• "Test both ways": the new Unreadable startup notice has no test, and the retain that clears it when a save sets the file aside is never exercised against a waiting Unreadable. Medium-low confidence. Inline comment posted (apps/rustgis/src/main.rs:804).
• The earlier-discussed prefs and popupmedia changes otherwise follow the never-crash and never-silent rules: no new unwrap, expect or panic in non-test code, and the failing save is reported through the notice path.

Prior review threads (not re-raised)

• Verified as fixed in this head: non-UTF-8 files are now set aside (from_slice with fs::read, with a 0xff 0xfe test); repeated failed saves reuse the identical recovery copy instead of burning slots; the directory is fsynced after the recovery copy and the replacement.
• Left alone, already answered: the failed-save notice has no count (the author replied that a count would not describe distinct unsaved settings); test temp-directory cleanup was deferred to the release quality pass by the author.

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Total size change	+11.6 KB

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crates/engine/src/prefs.rs	6.1 KB	13.0 KB	+6.9 KB
apps/rustgis/src/main.rs	34.1 KB	38.5 KB	+4.4 KB
crates/ui-egui/src/popupmedia.rs	39.1 KB	39.3 KB	+256 B

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- Line 142: Update the OpenOptions call in the recovery-file handling path to
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[Mavrick-F]

Fixed protected-copy reuse on Linux in c15a91b, with the existing retry regression checking a 0444 recovery copy. Targeted preferences tests, full native CI, WebAssembly and hooks passed. The merge also retains upstream #1698 exactly, superseding the temporary decoder-test workaround and resolving the conflict.

An interrupted recovery copy can occupy a slot, but replacement has not started, so the malformed original remains intact. Ordinary copy failures remove the partial copy. After a process or machine crash, keeping an occupied recovery name avoids deleting or overwriting potentially useful content; the bounded-slot refusal remains deliberate.

The repeated-read optimization, notice-prefix wording and additional startup-notice assertions are left for the release quality pass.

[Mavrick-F]

The protected-copy fix is pushed in c15a91b; all local gates passed. The additional directory-path assertion is accepted for the release quality pass and its thread is resolved. New recovery helpers document bounded reuse, synchronization and failure behavior; additional docstrings for existing tests and app frame logic are also left for the release quality pass.

[github-actions]

Possible false save failure on filesystems that reject directory fsync (low-medium confidence).

sync_directory propagates every error from File::open(dir)?.sync_all(). Some filesystems (certain FUSE and network mounts) return EINVAL or ENOTSUP for fsync on a directory descriptor. On those, the rename in replace_atomic has already succeeded, but write_at (line 59) still returns Err, so the window reports "Settings can't be saved" on every change, and the recovery path in set_aside (line 109) and same_contents (line 161) fails too. Before this PR, those saves succeeded.

Suggested direction: treat "directory sync not supported" (ErrorKind::InvalidInput / Unsupported, or raw EINVAL/ENOTSUP) as a no-op, and keep real I/O errors as failures. I have not verified which filesystems this affects, so please check it against the platforms the app targets before changing it.

[Mavrick-F]

Keeping the sync error is intentional. For malformed settings, set_aside syncs the recovery name before replacement, so a filesystem that cannot establish that durability leaves the original untouched. For an ordinary save, rename may already have completed when the final directory sync fails; the returned error means durability could not be confirmed. Ignoring InvalidInput/Unsupported would report durable success without establishing it and would weaken the recovery guarantee added in this PR. No affected target filesystem has been reproduced here, so I am retaining that behavior. More precise wording for the completed-rename/unconfirmed-durability case can be handled in the release quality pass.

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Bugs

• No correctness bugs found on the changed lines. I checked the new recovery-slot logic, the Unix permission and sync path, the replacement-failure error text, and the notice flow.
• pr-context/diff.patch's sync_directory (crates/engine/src/prefs.rs:125): a directory fsync that a filesystem rejects (EINVAL/ENOTSUP) turns a completed rename into a reported save failure, on every save. Posted inline. Confidence: low-medium; I have not verified which filesystems do this.

Security

• None found. Recovery copies are created with create_new and mode 0600, they never overwrite an existing name, and symlinked or directory slots are skipped.

Performance

• Nothing new of note. Each save now adds file and directory fsyncs, but saves are user-triggered, not per frame.

Quality

• The test named preference_updates_preserve_other_values_and_set_malformed_files_aside calls set_aside directly. It never forces a replacement failure after the set-aside, so the retry path and the "malformed preferences were kept at …" error text are untested. The comment "Failed replacements leave the malformed original" describes a failure the test does not produce. Left for the release quality pass.
• same_contents maps every I/O error to "not identical" via unwrap_or(false). That can consume a recovery slot silently. No data is lost, so I am not raising it as a bug. Confidence: low.

AGENTS.md

• Preference-save failures are reported through the window, Notice and fmt, as required.
• Not re-raised, because the author answered them: the missing count on the failed-save notice, the optimisation of the second read, and the test cleanup.
• Not re-raised, because they are already on the PR: the read-only recovery copy. The Linux branch is fixed. On macOS the code still opens the copy with write access, so a 0444 copy there still consumes slots. I left it alone because the author chose Linux only.

Prior review threads: I left 12 earlier concerns alone (already raised, or answered by the author). I posted one new inline comment.

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Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base 32ea10d to PR head c15a91b).

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Total size change	+11.8 KB

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crates/engine/src/prefs.rs	6.1 KB	13.5 KB	+7.4 KB
apps/rustgis/src/main.rs	34.1 KB	38.5 KB	+4.4 KB

[Mavrick-F]

Directory-sync errors remain visible intentionally: recovery must be durable before replacing malformed settings, and a completed rename alone does not establish durable replacement. The inline reply explains the before/after-rename cases; treating unsupported directory sync as success would weaken that contract. No failing target filesystem was reproduced by this review.

The extra forced-replacement-failure regression, the wording that distinguishes unconfirmed durability, and the recovery-comparison error-path refinement are left for the release quality pass. The current Linux protected-copy regression and full native, wasm and hook gates pass on c15a91b.

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- Around line 59-64: Separate `replace_atomic` errors from `sync_directory`
errors in `write_at`: keep returning an error when the file replacement fails,
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Preserve the successful save result and handle the sync failure as a
durability-only issue, without inventing a new error contract.

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Low confidence: I/O errors in the identical-copy check are swallowed.

same_contents(...).unwrap_or(false) treats a read, open or sync error the same as "different contents". The result is that a recovery slot is spent with no trace of why. An identical copy that fails its fsync is one example. The save still succeeds or fails on its own terms, so this is not data loss, but AGENTS.md asks that a silent fallback be said.

If you want it reported, return the error from the first scan and let the caller say it, or count the skipped slots and include the count in the set_aside error. If you decide it is acceptable, a short comment saying why an unreadable recovery copy is safe to skip would help the next reader.

[Mavrick-F]

A failed comparison means this copy has not been verified as reusable; the code preserves it and attempts a separate exclusively created, synced recovery copy. Replacement only proceeds after that copy succeeds, so neither the malformed original nor an existing recovery file is silently discarded. Propagating every comparison error would also reject missing recovery names and otherwise recoverable occupied slots. More detailed diagnostics for skipped unverifiable copies are left for the release quality pass.

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Bug (medium confidence): a notice queued during a frame can stay hidden until another frame happens.

Saves run inside ui and logic, and this loop drains the queue at the top of the next logic call. The comment at line 339 says egui "repaints on events only", so after a click that triggers a failed save, nothing may request the frame that shows the notice. It can wait until the next pointer movement, or never appear.

Suggested fix: request a repaint when notices are waiting. Add a pending() helper next to take_notices (!notices().is_empty()), then in fn ui after self.0.ui(ui); add if prefs::pending() { ui.ctx().request_repaint(); }.

Worth checking in the headless ui_shot harness with a failing save, since that is the path the screenshots in this PR show.

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Fixed in c3e217b. Both desktop logic and UI request another frame when preference notices remain queued after their work. A failed save is therefore delivered without another input event. The regression settles an idle context, checks that a pending failure requests a frame, then checks that draining it lets the context settle again. Focused regression, full native CI, WebAssembly and hooks passed.

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Two inline comments are posted. I found no crash paths, no unwrap in non-test code, and no silent data loss on the paths I traced. The recovery, durability and slot-reuse logic holds up when I walk through the cases.

Bugs

• Notices can stay hidden until another frame (medium confidence). Saves run in ui/logic, but the queue is drained at the start of the next logic call. egui repaints on events only, so a failed save triggered by a click may not show its notice. Posted inline at apps/rustgis/src/main.rs:346, with a pending() + request_repaint fix. This needs checking in the ui_shot harness.

Security

• None found. Recovery files are created with create_new and mode 0600, and symlink targets are rejected in the reuse scan.

Performance

• Two fsyncs per preference save, on the UI thread (low confidence). The file and directory syncs, plus the full-file reads in set_aside and same_contents, run synchronously in the save_pref closure. Preference writes are small, so the "work grows with input" rule does not clearly apply. Worth measuring on a slow or network disk.

Quality

• Swallowed I/O errors in the identical-copy check (low confidence). same_contents(...).unwrap_or(false) treats an unreadable recovery copy as "different" and silently spends a slot. Posted inline at crates/engine/src/prefs.rs:98.
• Shadowed name. In write_at_with_sync, the local set_aside shadows the set_aside() function. It compiles, but it reads poorly. Left for the release quality pass.
• Test cleanup on assertion failure. The full_recovery_slots… test does not drop-guard or pre-clean its temp directory. This was raised earlier and deferred, so I did not repeat it.

AGENTS.md

• The Session::notify route, the one-notice-per-episode rule and the test-both-ways pattern are followed. The failed-save notice has no count; that was raised earlier and answered, so I left it alone.

Earlier concerns left alone

I left 9 earlier concerns alone because they were already raised and answered or deferred: the repeated-read perf suggestion, the missing count on the failed-save notice, the directory-fsync-failure semantics, the unset Unreadable test, the non-UTF-8 handling, the slot-burn fix, the read-only copy on Linux, the popupmedia scope, and the temp-directory cleanup. One answer is worth a note: the reply kept write access for recovery copies on macOS and Windows, so a read-only copy there still isn't reused. I did not repost it.

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Bug (medium confidence): a failed recovery copy keeps its slot, so a transient failure can block all later saves.

This if let chain treats a failed copy and a failed sync the same way. Both leave the new prefs.json.badN in place. A copy failure (for example ENOSPC) leaves a truncated file. On the next save, same_contents sees a length mismatch, so the partial file is never reused and the next slot is taken. Nine failed saves while the disk is full (or a similar transient fault) then make every later save fail with "all 9 preference recovery files are occupied", even after space is freed. The app has no in-app way out; the user has to delete files by hand.

The reason for keeping failed copies (the doc comment's "another process may already have verified and reused one") only applies to a sync failure. A reuse requires a full byte-for-byte match, which a partial copy can never give. So a copy failure can safely release its slot:

let copied = source.rewind().and_then(|_| std::io::copy(&mut source, &mut backup));
if let Err(error) = copied {
    // Incomplete bytes never match the original, so no writer can reuse this name.
    let _ = std::fs::remove_file(&target);
    return Err(format!("could not preserve malformed preferences: {error}"));
}
if let Err(error) = sync(&backup, &target) {
    return Err(format!(
        "could not confirm recovery of malformed preferences: {error}; recovery copy retained at {} and may be incomplete",
        target.display()
    ));
}
return Ok(target);

Test gap: the sync injection point covers only the sync failure. Nothing exercises a copy failure, so this path is untested. A copy-failure hook (or a read error injected on source) plus an assertion that the slot is free for the next attempt would close it.

[Mavrick-F]

A copy error does not establish that the target is incomplete. I reproduced std::io::copy returning an error after its reader delivered the full payload: the target contained all bytes when the subsequent read failed. This is an API-level probe, not a claim to have reproduced a particular filesystem fault.

Another writer may already have verified and synced those bytes. Unlinking merely because copy returned Err would reintroduce the recovery-deletion race fixed in 7aa554e. The current behavior deliberately retains reserved recovery names, stops this writer's replacement, and reports the path as possibly incomplete. If all nine names are occupied without a verifiable identical copy, the error directs the user to repair or move one; neither the original nor an existing recovery copy is overwritten.

The interleaved-writer regression covers the deletion hazard. I am retaining this bounded, explicit refusal rather than assuming every copy error makes cleanup safe.

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Bugs

• Medium confidence. A failed recovery copy keeps its slot (crates/engine/src/prefs.rs:128, posted inline). A copy failure leaves a truncated prefs.json.badN that is never reused, so nine transient failures (for example a full disk) block every later save until files are removed by hand. A copy failure can safely release its slot because no writer can verify an incomplete file as identical. The author's "failed copies remain reserved" rationale only applies to sync failures.

Security

• None found. Recovery files are created with create_new and mode 0600, symlinks are rejected in same_contents, and nothing overwrites an existing recovery file.

Performance

• Low confidence. Preference saves run on the UI thread, and each change now does an fsync on the file and one on the directory, plus extra syncs when reusing a recovery copy. Before this PR there were no fsyncs. Preference payloads are small and the rule in AGENTS.md covers work that grows with input, so this is a latency concern rather than a violation.

Quality

• Low confidence. docs/architecture.md:107 says the preferences module "refuses to overwrite unreadable or malformed preferences". That was already stale before this PR, since the old code also set malformed files aside. It's outside the diff, so I didn't post it inline.

AGENTS.md

• None new. The untranslated fmt text is fine because i18n::fmt translates its template, and the new Notice text uses that path.

Already raised, left alone (16 threads): the non-UTF-8 handling, the failed-save notice count, the double read, the directory-fsync failures, the swallowed comparison errors, the Linux-only read-only recovery copies, the Unreadable-retain test, the ui repaint fix, and the test-directory cleanup. The author answered each one, and no new evidence was found against those answers.

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[Mavrick-F]

The copy-error cleanup suggestion is answered inline: an error can occur after the complete payload reaches the recovery file, so it does not establish that no other writer has reused the copy. Retaining the reserved name and reporting the bounded-slot refusal preserves recovery safety; the interleaved-writer regression remains green on 7aa554e.

Preference-save latency and the pre-existing architecture wording are left for the release quality pass. The current full review and platform checks are still running.

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Bug (medium-low confidence): a transient read error can set aside a valid settings file.

The guard treats any failure of read_at as "malformed" as long as a second std::fs::read succeeds. read_at also fails on plain I/O errors (could not read preferences: …), not only on parse errors. Example: on Windows, a sharing violation from antivirus or another process while the first read runs, with the second read succeeding a moment later. Then:

1. The valid file is copied to prefs.json.bad.
2. It is replaced by a file holding only the new key, so the user's other settings disappear from the active file.
3. The notice says "Your settings couldn't be read, so RustGIS started new ones", which is false for a readable file.

The data is kept in .bad, so it is recoverable, but the notice is wrong and the file was not malformed. The fix is to set aside only when the bytes were read and failed to parse, and to return I/O errors unchanged. For example, split the parse step out of read_at and match on the fs::read result:

let (mut map, set_aside) = match std::fs::read(path) {
    Ok(bytes) => match parse_preferences(&bytes) {
        Ok(map) => (map, None),
        Err(_) => (Map::new(), Some(set_aside(path)?)),
    },
    Err(error) if error.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => (Map::new(), None),
    Err(error) => return Err(format!("could not read preferences: {error}")),
};

A regression test should cover a readable valid file whose first read fails. That can be done by splitting the read and parse steps so the test can inject the failure. A test should assert that the valid file is not moved and that the save returns an error.

[Mavrick-F]

Fixed in 8362ce7. Saving now parses a single read result. An I/O failure returns the read error without replacement or recovery; only successfully read bytes that fail JSON/object parsing can start malformed-file recovery.

The regression injects a transient read failure against a valid file and checks that its bytes and other settings stay intact, no recovery copy is created, and a later successful save preserves the other keys. All five preferences tests and full native CI passed (5,359 tests), along with WebAssembly and hooks.

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Bugs

• A transient read error can set aside a valid settings file. The guard at crates/engine/src/prefs.rs:64 treats any first-read failure as malformed if a second read succeeds. The file is then replaced with one that holds only the new key, and the notice wrongly says the settings "couldn't be read". Inline comment posted. Confidence: medium-low.
• Earlier concern, still open: the recovery-copy reuse check opens copies read-write on macOS and Windows, so a 0444 copy isn't reused there and retries still use new slots. The author answered this, so I left it. Confidence: low.

Security

• No issues found. Recovery files are created with create_new and mode 0600 on Unix, which doesn't follow symlinks. same_contents reads in bounded 8 KiB chunks. Non-test code has no unwrap, expect, or unsafe.

Performance

• Each preference change now runs synchronous fsyncs on the UI thread: the file, then the directory, plus F_FULLFSYNC on macOS. Saves are change-driven and deduplicated, and the writes are small, so this is a latency risk on slow disks, not a frame-by-frame cost. Confidence: low.

Quality

• A recovered malformed file is announced with notify(text, true), which uses error severity for a successful recovery. Minor; for the release quality pass.
• The new test uses process-global notice statics. It's fine today because only this test touches them. Minor.

AGENTS.md

• The failed-save notice has no count or key name. Earlier concern, answered by the author, so I left it.
• Several items are deferred to the release quality pass: test cleanup, the repeated read in the guard, the Unreadable test, and the directory-path test. The author marked these as deferred, so I left them.
• Checked and fine: the write path is covered by tests in both directions, notices go through Session::notify and the window, and prefs::write has no other callers, so the new Option<PathBuf> return can't be dropped silently.

I found one new issue. I left 18 earlier threads alone: 14 were already addressed by the author, 2 were resolved, and 2 are deferred. The one thread on the popupmedia.rs test no longer applies, because this PR no longer touches that file.

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[Mavrick-F]

The sync-retry finding is fixed in ef73e6b. Verified identical bytes and durability confirmation are separate, so a failed confirmation stops the save without spending another recovery slot. The repeated-failure/reuse regression and full native CI passed (5,358 tests), along with WebAssembly and hooks.

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The transient-read data-loss path is fixed in 8362ce7. Saving uses one read result and distinguishes I/O errors from malformed JSON; the injected-failure regression verifies preservation and a later clean save. Five preferences tests, full native CI (5,359 tests), WebAssembly and hooks passed.

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Quality (medium-low confidence): the not-saved notice drops the consequence that the module doc above it promises to convey.

The doc comment on this module says a setting that looks saved but isn't "would be lost silently when RustGIS closes". For a hard failure (write_at returned before replacing the file: read-only, disk full, permissions), the setting is not on disk at all and will be gone when the app closes. The text here says only "Settings could not be saved reliably (…)". "Reliably" suggests partial durability, not a change that is absent from disk, and the user is not told what happens next.

The durability case (the file was replaced but the directory sync failed) is a different outcome, and the wording here fits it. The two outcomes share one NotSaved(String) variant, so they can't get different text yet. A small fix: split the variant, e.g. NotSaved(String) for a failed write and NotDurable(String) for an unconfirmed flush, and let the failed-write text say the change "will be lost when RustGIS closes".

I'm not treating this as blocking. Raising it because the notice is the only signal the user gets.

[Mavrick-F]

The notice includes the operation's error, which distinguishes a failed replacement from an already-visible replacement whose durability is unconfirmed. Splitting the presentation into separate failed-write and unconfirmed-durability notices is left for the release quality pass, as a wording improvement. A blanket “lost when RustGIS closes” consequence would be inaccurate for the latter case.

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I reviewed the diff against the staged AGENTS.md, the PR metadata, and the prior threads. I found no high-confidence bugs. The prior concerns were mostly fixed in the code (I checked each one against the source). I posted one inline comment, on the notice wording at apps/rustgis/src/main.rs:132.

Bugs

• None found. I checked the save and recovery paths (write_at_with_bytes, set_aside_with_sync, same_contents), the lock order in saved() (no inversion), the repaint-after-drain logic, and the callers of prefs::write (only the desktop app). Confidence: high that there is no new blocking bug.

Security

• None found. Recovery copies are created with mode 0600 on Unix, and error messages don't echo file contents. Confidence: medium-high.

Performance

• Each preference save now does an fsync on the file and one on its directory, on the UI thread. It runs once per user action, not per frame, and the data is small, so AGENTS.md's "never hold the window" rule doesn't clearly apply. Confidence: low.

Quality

• apps/rustgis/src/main.rs:132 (posted inline, medium-low confidence): a hard save failure gets the same "could not be saved reliably" text as an unconfirmed durability flush. The first case is not on disk at all and will be lost on close, which the module doc comment promises to say. Fix: split the variant.
• Nit, grouped: Notice::SetAside is delivered with error = true, so an informational notice is styled as an error.
• Nit, grouped: the same_contents doc comment says "sync failures remain distinct", but that function never syncs. The comment describes the caller.

AGENTS.md

• The PR body links its screenshots from a personal fork (Mavrick-F/rustgis-assets). AGENTS.md says images live in opengeos/rustgis-assets and are served from assets.rustgis.app. Web attachments are also allowed by docs/contributing.md. This is a PR-description point, not a code one. Confidence: medium.
• The lines in prefs.rs over 120 characters are within the repo's max_width = 140, so I did not flag them.

Prior concerns

• I left 9 earlier concerns alone because they were already raised and answered or deferred to the release quality pass: the count wording, the Unreadable test, the directory-fsync EINVAL case, the open-instead-of-read perf nit, the popupmedia scope, the swallowed comparison errors, the failed-copy slot, the test cleanup, and the non-regular-path test.
• The remaining earlier threads were resolved by code changes I verified. Those were: the read-error misclassification, the directory sync, the read-only recovery copy, the reuse on sync failure, and the UTF-8 handling.

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apps/rustgis/src/main.rs	34.1 KB	40.8 KB	+6.7 KB

[Mavrick-F]

The remaining notice wording, recovery severity and helper-comment refinements are left for the release quality pass. The operation-specific reason already distinguishes failed writes from an unconfirmed flush; full native CI, WebAssembly and hooks pass on 8362ce7.

The screenshots are PR review evidence, hosted as commit-pinned links in the assets fork under the contribution workflow. Documentation asset hosting remains separate.

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The recovery-snapshot part is fixed in e5a25f9. Recovery now writes and verifies the exact bytes that failed parsing, without rereading the destination. The regression replaces the destination with valid settings before recovery, then verifies that the original malformed bytes are preserved, the current file is untouched by the recovery step, and a retry reuses the same copy. Transient read failures still leave the file unchanged.

Cross-process read/modify/write serialization is outside this PR’s original scope, which explicitly excludes lost-update handling between running app copies. Whole-file saves remain last-writer-wins; this change does not claim a lock or compare-and-swap guarantee. The PR description now states that limitation explicitly. A separate pre-rename check would not solve it.

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Docstring coverage cleanup is left for the release quality pass. The local contribution preflight passed; that metric is separate from the review service’s documentation check.

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Performance (low confidence): every preference save now fsyncs on the UI thread.

A normal save does two fsyncs (the new file in atomic_write_at, then the parent directory here). A save that sets a malformed file aside does four more. save_pref runs synchronously from UI code, and some actions save several preferences in a row, for example assistantpane.rs:339-341 (provider, model, base URL), so one click can cost about six fsyncs. On a slow disk, or on macOS where F_FULLFSYNC is expensive, that is a visible hitch.

This is a fixed-size write, not work that grows with its input, so AGENTS.md's background rule may not apply. The durability is deliberate and I would keep it. It might still be worth measuring the cost, or batching the three saves in assistantpane.rs into one write.

[Mavrick-F]

Confirmed that save_config makes three synchronous preference writes. The file and directory flushes provide this PR’s durability guarantee, so I am retaining them. This is bounded settings work, and no visible stall has been reproduced. Measuring the cost and considering a batched settings API are left for the release quality pass.

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Code review

I reviewed the full diff (apps/rustgis/src/main.rs, crates/engine/src/prefs.rs) and the shared atomic writer it calls (crates/data/src/io.rs). I also checked that every prefs::write caller matches the new return type, that the Session::notify signature fits, that i18n::fmt translates its template, and that progress::check cannot fail a UI-thread save. I found no crash path, no silent data loss, and no unwrap or unsafe in non-test code. Most of what I looked at was already raised in prior threads, so I've mainly added the points below.

Bugs: none new that I could confirm.

Security: none found. Recovery copies are created with mode 0600 on Unix, and the log lines contain paths and error kinds only, not preference values.

Performance

• Every preference save now does two fsyncs (file, then directory), and four when a malformed file is set aside. Saves run on the UI thread, and some actions save several keys at once (assistantpane.rs:339-341). Confidence: low. I posted this inline on prefs.rs:94.

Quality (nits, left for the release quality pass)

• The doc comment on same_contents (prefs.rs:180) says "sync failures remain distinct", but the function does no sync. Confidence: high.

AGENTS.md: no new violations. Translatable text goes through fmt, no dependencies changed, and the screenshots are linked.

Left alone, already raised in prior threads (about 20): the missing notice count, the Linux-only read-only reuse, copy-failure slot burn, the cross-process overwrite race (acknowledged in the PR body), the directory-sync wording, the test cleanup, and the queued-notice test gap.

Process note: the PR body's test results refer to commit 8362ce73, but the head is now e5a25f9. The last commit (exact malformed-snapshot recovery) has no CI evidence stated in the body. Confidence: high.

Change size

Compared with main (merge base 32ea10d, PR head e5a25f9).

Measure	Value
Files changed	2 (0 added, 2 modified, 0 removed, 0 renamed)
Size before	40.2 KB
Size after	61.5 KB
Total size change	+21.3 KB

Path	Before	After	Change
crates/engine/src/prefs.rs	6.1 KB	20.7 KB	+14.6 KB
apps/rustgis/src/main.rs	34.1 KB	40.7 KB	+6.7 KB

[Mavrick-F]

The PR body has been updated to e5a25f93: full native CI passed with 5,360 tests, 0 failures and 22 ignored, together with the WebAssembly build and hooks. All six preferences regressions passed, including exact malformed-snapshot recovery.

The durability flushes remain. Measuring or batching the bounded synchronous settings writes, and clarifying the same_contents documentation, are left for the release quality pass.

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[Mavrick-F]

@coderabbitai approve

All checks have passed on e5a25f93003f69fd889b48db5a5d8bdae34ca4f4, including Windows, macOS and ARM. The exact-snapshot recovery fix is validated, and the concurrency scope boundary was accepted in the review thread. The remaining documentation and performance suggestions are recorded for the release quality pass.

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Learnings used

Learnt from: jgregoriorincon
Repo: opengeos/RustGIS PR: 1616
File: docs/user-guide/data-formats.md:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-10T03:06:01.901Z
Learning: Within repository "opengeos/RustGIS": In opengeos/RustGIS, when a review point is marked for the release quality pass, recognize that maintainers collect such points before each release. Do not propose a separate follow-up issue solely to track that point unless requested.

Learnt from: Mavrick-F
Repo: opengeos/RustGIS PR: 1695
File: crates/engine/src/prefs.rs:70-88
Timestamp: 2026-11-10T20:16:07.214Z
Learning: Within repository "opengeos/RustGIS", only for files matching one of ["crates/engine/src/prefs.rs"]: When reviewing preference recovery in crates/engine/src/prefs.rs, verify that the recovery copy preserves the exact bytes that failed parsing even if the destination changes before recovery. Do not reread the destination to obtain the recovery bytes. Retain regression coverage for a changed destination and reuse of the recovery copy.

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Approval skipped: unresolved review threads

[Mavrick-F]

@coderabbitai approve

The remaining thread is now resolved after your acceptance in #1695 (comment). The exact-snapshot fix and the original concurrency scope boundary remain documented. All checks still pass on e5a25f93003f69fd889b48db5a5d8bdae34ca4f4.

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@Mavrick-F Thanks for the update. The approval workflow will check eligibility and review readiness.

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Learnt from: deniial00
Repo: opengeos/RustGIS PR: 1215
File: :0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-01T17:51:35.449Z
Learning: Within repository "opengeos/RustGIS": When reviewing pull requests in opengeos/RustGIS, treat automated review findings as advisory rather than mandatory merge requirements. Prioritize real bugs. If a contributor gives a reasoned explanation for declining a minor or low-value suggestion, acknowledge that decision without insisting on the change. Leave merge requirements to the maintainers.

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