Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

consumer_acceptance: a same-path rerun after a floor refusal lowers the recorded inventory floor

Open
#1,303 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Maintainers usually reply within 1 day

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
70/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
c, python
Domain
testing-qa

Research direction

Run timeout 40s python3 /tmp/critic-ca3/repro_floor_persistence.py to reproduce the repeated-run failure, then inspect the consumer_acceptance harness's same-path record handling. Verify that two runs against the two-consumer ecosystem both fail with the missing consumer named, and that the harness self-test catches a planted fault.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

area:gates found-by:critic kind:silent-wrong

Found by the blind critic on the #1275 consumer_acceptance shrink (round 3, c98a743). It is pre-existing: the old harness at 88ba928 fails the same repeated-run check.

Problem. Start from a dated COMPLETE record with 3 rows, and a current ecosystem with only 2 consumers. Run 1 correctly refuses (record_floor=3). It then writes its own record at the SAME path with inventory=2. Run 2 reads only that smaller record and PASSes. The historical floor is lost after one unsuccessful run.

Reproduce (dev box): timeout 40s python3 /tmp/critic-ca3/repro_floor_persistence.py <harness>.

Done when:

  • The floor a refusing run writes is the max of the prior floor and its own inventory, and the missing consumer's name is carried forward.
  • Two consecutive runs against the 2-consumer ecosystem both FAIL naming the missing consumer.
  • A planted fault in the harness self-test covers it.
Dominant language
C
Stars
3
Forks
7
Avg merge
3h 56m
Merged PRs (30d)
102

Getting set up

Open in Codespaces

Starts the project's dev container in your browser, under your own GitHub account.

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from InauguralSystems/EigenScript

All issues in InauguralSystems/EigenScript

Similar issues

More C issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.