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The README compressed submission, admission and completion into a single `yield* yield* buffer.spawn(...)` expression, and the `spawn()` doc comment claimed the operation "will not return until the task has actually been spawned" — which contradicts both its `Operation<Operation<Task<T>>>` return type and what it does. Name the intermediate values so the four steps are distinct, and describe the verified failure and cancellation behavior: a task error tears down the enclosing scope, `yield* buffer` never reports it, and only handling the error inside the spawned operation contains it. Tests cover each documented claim. No runtime change.
The dispatch loop resubscribed to its `input` channel on every iteration. Effection channels do not buffer for non-subscribers, so a `spawn()` whose `send()` landed between the emptiness check and the new subscription was lost: the request stayed in `requests`, was never spawned even with capacity to spare, and `yield* buffer` waited on it forever. A later `spawn()` did not recover it. Subscribe once during resource setup, before `provide()` can hand the buffer to a caller, so no send can arrive without a subscriber. This retires the `next()` helper. The regression test hangs without this fix.
Nothing removed an entry from `requests`, so a request whose caller was halted while waiting on `yield* admission` was still admitted once room appeared, and the operation ran with nobody waiting for it. Return an operation that splices the request out when the wait for it unwinds. The cleanup is synchronous, so `finally` is safe here. Submitting without ever waiting for admission is unchanged: that request stays queued. This is an observable change in semantics rather than a pure fix, hence the minor bump.
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A request is not executed when the buffer scope exits or when its admission wait is halted. Change “all tasks are eventually executed” to “all requests that remain queued while the buffer scope is active are eventually executed.”
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Effection halts a task's children LIFO, so the dispatch loop — spawned first — is halted last. Every active task that settled ahead of it freed a slot, waking the loop to spawn queued requests into a scope that was already unwinding. Close the buffer in the resource body's `finally`, which runs before any child is halted, and skip admission once it is closed.
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Motivation
TaskBuffer.spawn()has a two-stage API: it first submits work, then returns an operation that waits for admission and provides the spawnedTask. The documentation compressed those steps together and did not explain failure or cancellation behavior.Clarifying the behavior exposed three concurrency bugs:
The third one has a teardown-ordering cause worth spelling out. Effection halts a task's children in reverse order of creation, so the buffer's dispatch loop — spawned before any of the work it manages — is halted last. Every active task that settled ahead of it freed a slot, which woke the loop to spawn queued requests into a scope that was already unwinding. With several requests queued it cascades, because each admitted operation finishes immediately and frees its own slot in turn.
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finallyaroundprovide(), which unwinds before any child is halted, so the dispatch loop’s capacity check already sees a closed buffer. That cleanup is synchronous, per the Async Teardown policy.The public API, the two-stage
spawn()behavior, and failure propagation semantics are all unchanged. The package is bumped to1.3.4because it's a fix.A note for reviewers on the shutdown test: asserting that something never ran needs a scheduler flush. Effection dispatches by depth, shallowest first, so a test coroutine resuming on a resolver runs ahead of the deeper routines the same drain woke, and a bare assertion reads the world too early — the test passed against the broken implementation until a
settled()helper was added to park until the drain is exhausted. It uses no timers and nosleep().Summary by CodeRabbit
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