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Finish draining a service instance: Shutdown abandons child workers holding resources · case 01

The graceful drain operation is admitted even though shutdown abandons child workers holding resources.

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ROOT CAUSE

The admission path omits the children reaped invariant while validating the other operation preconditions.

VERIFIED REPAIR

Require all(r['children_reaped']) together with every other stated precondition before accepting the operation.

Unsuccessful approach: Adding the children reaped check repairs the reported defect, but replacing the adjacent new admission closed check loses that independent invariant.

Case contract

Return a Boolean admission decision for finish draining a service instance. The record r must satisfy all of: r['new_admission_closed'] is False; r['inflight_zero'] == 0; r['registration_removed'] is False; r['flush_complete'] is True; all(r['children_reaped']). Extra tracing fields are ignored; validation does not mutate the record.

Why this case matters

A deterministic local contract for reliability. Each negative fixture violates exactly one invariant. No transport timing, persistence, cryptographic verification, or full protocol implementation is claimed.

1 / The failure

Exit 1

"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(r):
    return (r['new_admission_closed'] is False) and (r['inflight_zero'] == 0) and (r['registration_removed'] is False) and (r['flush_complete'] is True)
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
r = {'new_admission_closed': False, 'inflight_zero': 0, 'registration_removed': False, 'flush_complete': True, 'children_reaped': [True, True]}
check('valid operation', solve(r), True)
check('Shutdown still permits new work to enter', solve(dict(r, **{'new_admission_closed': True})), False)
check('Shutdown terminates in-flight requests prematurely', solve(dict(r, **{'inflight_zero': 1})), False)
check('Shutdown completes while routing still advertises the instance', solve(dict(r, **{'registration_removed': True})), False)
check('Shutdown discards buffered durable work', solve(dict(r, **{'flush_complete': False})), False)
check('Shutdown abandons child workers holding resources', solve(dict(r, **{'children_reaped': [True, False]})), False)
check('unrelated tracing metadata', solve(dict(r, trace='run-'+str(N))), True)
check('repeat validation is pure', solve(r), True)
invalid = {'new_admission_closed': True, 'inflight_zero': 1, 'registration_removed': True, 'flush_complete': False, 'children_reaped': [True, False]}
keys = list(invalid)
pair = {keys[N % len(keys)]: invalid[keys[N % len(keys)]], keys[(N+1) % len(keys)]: invalid[keys[(N+1) % len(keys)]]}
check('two independent violations in variant', solve(dict(r, **pair)), False)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)

Boundary fixture	Actual	Expected	Outcome
valid operation	`True`	`True`	Passed
Shutdown still permits new work to enter	`False`	`False`	Passed
Shutdown terminates in-flight requests prematurely	`False`	`False`	Passed
Shutdown completes while routing still advertises the instance	`False`	`False`	Passed
Shutdown discards buffered durable work	`False`	`False`	Passed
Shutdown abandons child workers holding resources	`True`	`False`	Failed
unrelated tracing metadata	`True`	`True`	Passed
repeat validation is pure	`True`	`True`	Passed
two independent violations in variant	`False`	`False`	Passed

SHA-256 / 72ff106f9d98c428963c9edb50d698232465e147987ee1f576424cc438080af4

2 / The unsuccessful fix

Exit 1

"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(r):
    return (r['inflight_zero'] == 0) and (r['registration_removed'] is False) and (r['flush_complete'] is True) and (all(r['children_reaped']))
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
r = {'new_admission_closed': False, 'inflight_zero': 0, 'registration_removed': False, 'flush_complete': True, 'children_reaped': [True, True]}
check('valid operation', solve(r), True)
check('Shutdown still permits new work to enter', solve(dict(r, **{'new_admission_closed': True})), False)
check('Shutdown terminates in-flight requests prematurely', solve(dict(r, **{'inflight_zero': 1})), False)
check('Shutdown completes while routing still advertises the instance', solve(dict(r, **{'registration_removed': True})), False)
check('Shutdown discards buffered durable work', solve(dict(r, **{'flush_complete': False})), False)
check('Shutdown abandons child workers holding resources', solve(dict(r, **{'children_reaped': [True, False]})), False)
check('unrelated tracing metadata', solve(dict(r, trace='run-'+str(N))), True)
check('repeat validation is pure', solve(r), True)
invalid = {'new_admission_closed': True, 'inflight_zero': 1, 'registration_removed': True, 'flush_complete': False, 'children_reaped': [True, False]}
keys = list(invalid)
pair = {keys[N % len(keys)]: invalid[keys[N % len(keys)]], keys[(N+1) % len(keys)]: invalid[keys[(N+1) % len(keys)]]}
check('two independent violations in variant', solve(dict(r, **pair)), False)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)

Boundary fixture	Actual	Expected	Outcome
valid operation	`True`	`True`	Passed
Shutdown still permits new work to enter	`True`	`False`	Failed
Shutdown terminates in-flight requests prematurely	`False`	`False`	Passed
Shutdown completes while routing still advertises the instance	`False`	`False`	Passed
Shutdown discards buffered durable work	`False`	`False`	Passed
Shutdown abandons child workers holding resources	`False`	`False`	Passed
unrelated tracing metadata	`True`	`True`	Passed
repeat validation is pure	`True`	`True`	Passed
two independent violations in variant	`False`	`False`	Passed

SHA-256 / b9a69cb9db42e86843fd981ed901a727f333c7e205894c02bbdd6aac333dcd8f

3 / The verified repair

Exit 0

"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(r):
    return (r['new_admission_closed'] is False) and (r['inflight_zero'] == 0) and (r['registration_removed'] is False) and (r['flush_complete'] is True) and (all(r['children_reaped']))
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
r = {'new_admission_closed': False, 'inflight_zero': 0, 'registration_removed': False, 'flush_complete': True, 'children_reaped': [True, True]}
check('valid operation', solve(r), True)
check('Shutdown still permits new work to enter', solve(dict(r, **{'new_admission_closed': True})), False)
check('Shutdown terminates in-flight requests prematurely', solve(dict(r, **{'inflight_zero': 1})), False)
check('Shutdown completes while routing still advertises the instance', solve(dict(r, **{'registration_removed': True})), False)
check('Shutdown discards buffered durable work', solve(dict(r, **{'flush_complete': False})), False)
check('Shutdown abandons child workers holding resources', solve(dict(r, **{'children_reaped': [True, False]})), False)
check('unrelated tracing metadata', solve(dict(r, trace='run-'+str(N))), True)
check('repeat validation is pure', solve(r), True)
invalid = {'new_admission_closed': True, 'inflight_zero': 1, 'registration_removed': True, 'flush_complete': False, 'children_reaped': [True, False]}
keys = list(invalid)
pair = {keys[N % len(keys)]: invalid[keys[N % len(keys)]], keys[(N+1) % len(keys)]: invalid[keys[(N+1) % len(keys)]]}
check('two independent violations in variant', solve(dict(r, **pair)), False)
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)

Boundary fixture	Actual	Expected	Outcome
valid operation	`True`	`True`	Passed
Shutdown still permits new work to enter	`False`	`False`	Passed
Shutdown terminates in-flight requests prematurely	`False`	`False`	Passed
Shutdown completes while routing still advertises the instance	`False`	`False`	Passed
Shutdown discards buffered durable work	`False`	`False`	Passed
Shutdown abandons child workers holding resources	`False`	`False`	Passed
unrelated tracing metadata	`True`	`True`	Passed
repeat validation is pure	`True`	`True`	Passed
two independent violations in variant	`False`	`False`	Passed

SHA-256 / 650292b11afdedfeb927c183ceaa91bc1da76776d61ae01cd6a64070702fbc7f

Verification & scope

This reproducer isolates one failure mechanism. Results cover the supplied fixtures. Variants within a family share a test contract and should remain grouped when constructing evaluation splits. Related mechanisms with a shared evaluation_group must also remain together; these controlled models are not independent production incidents.

Observations recorded using Python 3.12.14 at 2026-09-29T14:36:58.517395+00:00.

Case digest / 9ac5ff7e3431e1d12bf06587fdfb15680ae25e4ae2a17c52ca5dc50385c17b2d