@akanjs/devkit 3.0.0-beta.3 → 3.0.0-beta.30

package/frontendBuild/sourceMtimeIndex.test.ts

@@ -1,17 +1,9 @@
-import { afterEach, describe, expect, test } from "bun:test";
-import { chmod, mkdir, mkdtemp, readdir, rm, stat, utimes, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
-import os from "node:os";
+import { describe, expect, test } from "bun:test";
+import { chmod, mkdir, readdir, rm, stat, utimes, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 import path from "node:path";
+import { tempDirs } from "../testHelpers";
 import { SourceMtimeIndex } from "./sourceMtimeIndex";
 
-const roots: string[] = [];
-
-const makeRoot = async () => {
-  const root = await mkdtemp(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "akan-mtime-index-"));
-  roots.push(root);
-  return root;
-};
-
 const seed = async (root: string, rel: string, content = "export const x = 1;\n") => {
   const abs = path.join(root, rel);
   await mkdir(path.dirname(abs), { recursive: true });
@@ -19,17 +11,16 @@ const seed = async (root: string, rel: string, content = "export const x = 1;\n"
   return abs;
 };
 
-/**
- * mtime comparison needs the write to land on a different timestamp than the baseline. APFS records
- * nanoseconds so same-millisecond writes normally still differ, but size is compared too and a
- * same-length rewrite inside one tick would tie both — so tests vary content length rather than sleep.
- */
+const primed = async (indexRoots: string[], dirSettleMs?: number) => {
+  const index = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: indexRoots, dirSettleMs });
+  await index.prime();
+  return index;
+};
+
+// Varies content length rather than sleeping: a same-length rewrite inside one mtime tick would tie both mtime and size.
 const rewrite = (abs: string, marker: string) => writeFile(abs, `export const x = ${marker};\n`);
 
-/**
- * `rm` cannot traverse a directory a test left unreadable, and a throw here fails the *next* test rather
- * than the one that caused it — so permissions are restored on the way down before giving up.
- */
+// `rm` cannot traverse a directory a test left unreadable, and a throw here fails the next test, so restore permissions.
 const forceRemove = async (target: string): Promise<void> => {
   await rm(target, { recursive: true, force: true }).catch(async () => {
     await chmod(target, 0o755).catch(() => undefined);
@@ -39,16 +30,13 @@ const forceRemove = async (target: string): Promise<void> => {
   });
 };
 
-afterEach(async () => {
-  await Promise.all(roots.splice(0).map((root) => forceRemove(root)));
-});
+const makeRoot = tempDirs("akan-mtime-index-", forceRemove);
 
 describe("SourceMtimeIndex", () => {
   test("reports nothing on a quiet tree", async () => {
     const root = await makeRoot();
     await seed(root, "lib/a.ts");
-    const index = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: [root] });
-    await index.prime();
+    const index = await primed([root]);
 
     expect(index.trackedFileCount).toBe(1);
     expect(await index.collectChanges()).toEqual([]);
@@ -58,10 +46,8 @@ describe("SourceMtimeIndex", () => {
   test("reports every file of a save-all, which is what fs.watch loses", async () => {
     const root = await makeRoot();
     const files = await Promise.all([0, 1, 2, 3, 4].map((i) => seed(root, `lib/File${i}.ts`)));
-    const index = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: [root] });
-    await index.prime();
+    const index = await primed([root]);
 
-    // No gaps: exactly the burst Bun collapses to a single reported path.
     for (const [i, abs] of files.entries()) await rewrite(abs, `${i}00`);
 
     expect((await index.collectChanges()).sort()).toEqual([...files].sort());
@@ -70,8 +56,7 @@ describe("SourceMtimeIndex", () => {
   test("reports a change once, then stops reporting it", async () => {
     const root = await makeRoot();
     const abs = await seed(root, "lib/a.ts");
-    const index = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: [root] });
-    await index.prime();
+    const index = await primed([root]);
 
     await rewrite(abs, "222");
     expect(await index.collectChanges()).toEqual([abs]);
@@ -81,8 +66,7 @@ describe("SourceMtimeIndex", () => {
   test("reports a created file, found through its directory's mtime", async () => {
     const root = await makeRoot();
     await seed(root, "lib/a.ts");
-    const index = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: [root] });
-    await index.prime();
+    const index = await primed([root]);
 
     const created = await seed(root, "lib/b.ts");
     expect(await index.collectChanges()).toEqual([created]);
@@ -92,34 +76,23 @@ describe("SourceMtimeIndex", () => {
   test("reports a created directory's files", async () => {
     const root = await makeRoot();
     await seed(root, "lib/a.ts");
-    const index = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: [root] });
-    await index.prime();
+    const index = await primed([root]);
 
     const created = await seed(root, "lib/user/user.constant.ts");
     expect(await index.collectChanges()).toEqual([created]);
     expect(await index.collectChanges()).toEqual([]);
   });
 
-  /**
-   * Linux stamps directory mtimes from a coarse clock, so a mutation landing in the same tick as the
-   * value the index recorded leaves that value byte-identical: measured under Docker, 319 of 400
-   * back-to-back `mkdir`s never moved the parent's mtime on overlayfs and 324 of 400 on ext4, while APFS
-   * missed none. `utimes` reproduces that here rather than leaving it to the host's clock resolution —
-   * otherwise this passes on macOS for the wrong reason and is flaky on the Linux fleet.
-   *
-   * `dirSettleMs` is pinned wide so the assertion is about the mechanism, not about how many milliseconds
-   * the lines above happened to take.
-   */
+  // `utimes` pins the parent's mtime to reproduce Linux's coarse directory clock on any host; `dirSettleMs` is
+  // pinned wide so the assertion does not depend on how long the lines above took.
   test("finds a created directory even when the clock never moves the parent's mtime", async () => {
     const root = await makeRoot();
     await seed(root, "lib/a.ts");
     const dir = path.join(root, "lib");
-    // Pinned before priming too: `utimes` keeps whole milliseconds but drops APFS's sub-millisecond part,
-    // so stamping both sides is what makes "the mtime did not move" exact rather than 0.5ms apart.
+    // Stamped before priming too: `utimes` drops APFS's sub-millisecond part, so both sides must be whole ms.
     const frozen = new Date();
     await utimes(dir, frozen, frozen);
-    const index = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: [root], dirSettleMs: 60_000 });
-    await index.prime();
+    const index = await primed([root], 60_000);
 
     const created = await seed(root, "lib/user/user.constant.ts");
     await utimes(dir, frozen, frozen);
@@ -132,12 +105,9 @@ describe("SourceMtimeIndex", () => {
   test("stops re-reading a directory once its mtime is old enough to trust", async () => {
     const root = await makeRoot();
     await seed(root, "lib/a.ts");
-    const index = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: [root], dirSettleMs: 60_000 });
-    await index.prime();
+    const index = await primed([root], 60_000);
     expect(index.hasUnsettledDirs).toBe(true);
 
-    // The retry compensates for a timestamp that is too fresh to trust; it must not become a standing
-    // full walk once the tree settles.
     const settled = new Date(Date.now() - 120_000);
     for (const dir of [root, path.join(root, "lib")]) await utimes(dir, settled, settled);
 
@@ -149,8 +119,7 @@ describe("SourceMtimeIndex", () => {
     const root = await makeRoot();
     const kept = await seed(root, "lib/a.ts");
     const removed = await seed(root, "lib/gone/b.ts");
-    const index = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: [root] });
-    await index.prime();
+    const index = await primed([root]);
 
     await rm(path.join(root, "lib/gone"), { recursive: true, force: true });
     expect(await index.collectChanges()).toEqual([removed]);
@@ -161,8 +130,7 @@ describe("SourceMtimeIndex", () => {
   test("ignores build output and node_modules", async () => {
     const root = await makeRoot();
     await seed(root, "lib/a.ts");
-    const index = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: [root] });
-    await index.prime();
+    const index = await primed([root]);
     expect(index.trackedFileCount).toBe(1);
 
     await seed(root, ".akan/artifact/server/pages-1.js");
@@ -174,8 +142,7 @@ describe("SourceMtimeIndex", () => {
   test("ignores files no classifier kind applies to", async () => {
     const root = await makeRoot();
     await seed(root, "lib/a.ts");
-    const index = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: [root] });
-    await index.prime();
+    const index = await primed([root]);
 
     await seed(root, "public/logo.svg", "<svg/>");
     expect(await index.collectChanges()).toEqual([]);
@@ -184,8 +151,7 @@ describe("SourceMtimeIndex", () => {
   test("absorb adopts a write instead of reporting it", async () => {
     const root = await makeRoot();
     const abs = await seed(root, "lib/index.ts");
-    const index = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: [root] });
-    await index.prime();
+    const index = await primed([root]);
 
     await rewrite(abs, "333");
     await index.absorb([abs]);
@@ -195,8 +161,7 @@ describe("SourceMtimeIndex", () => {
   test("absorb of an unknown path does not start tracking a change", async () => {
     const root = await makeRoot();
     await seed(root, "lib/a.ts");
-    const index = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: [root] });
-    await index.prime();
+    const index = await primed([root]);
 
     const created = await seed(root, "lib/generated.ts");
     await index.absorb([created]);
@@ -206,10 +171,8 @@ describe("SourceMtimeIndex", () => {
   test("counts a file once when a root is nested inside another root", async () => {
     const root = await makeRoot();
     await seed(root, "page/_index.tsx");
-    const nested = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: [root, path.join(root, "page")] });
-    await nested.prime();
-    const flat = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: [root] });
-    await flat.prime();
+    const nested = await primed([root, path.join(root, "page")]);
+    const flat = await primed([root]);
 
     expect(nested.trackedFileCount).toBe(flat.trackedFileCount);
   });
@@ -217,11 +180,8 @@ describe("SourceMtimeIndex", () => {
   test("concurrent scans do not invent a change", async () => {
     const root = await makeRoot();
     await Promise.all([0, 1, 2, 3, 4].map((i) => seed(root, `lib/File${i}.ts`)));
-    const index = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: [root] });
-    await index.prime();
+    const index = await primed([root]);
 
-    // Overlapping scans used to corrupt each other's view of the baseline: one pruned an entry the other
-    // had already snapshotted, and the path came back as a change nothing had written.
     const rounds = await Promise.all([1, 2, 3, 4].map(() => index.collectChanges()));
     expect(rounds.flat()).toEqual([]);
   });
@@ -229,8 +189,7 @@ describe("SourceMtimeIndex", () => {
   test("concurrent scans report a real change exactly once between them", async () => {
     const root = await makeRoot();
     const abs = await seed(root, "lib/a.ts");
-    const index = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: [root] });
-    await index.prime();
+    const index = await primed([root]);
 
     await rewrite(abs, "444");
     const rounds = await Promise.all([1, 2, 3].map(() => index.collectChanges()));
@@ -247,63 +206,49 @@ describe("SourceMtimeIndex", () => {
   });
 
   describe("a directory it cannot read", () => {
-    /**
-     * `chmod 000` does not stop root, so these would assert the opposite of what they mean when the suite
-     * runs as root (CI containers commonly do).
-     */
-    const asRoot = process.getuid?.() === 0;
+    // `chmod 000` does not stop root (CI containers often run as root), and on Windows it leaves a directory listable.
+    const cannotLock = process.getuid?.() === 0 || process.platform === "win32";
 
-    test.skipIf(asRoot)("is reported as a gap instead of silently skipped", async () => {
+    test.skipIf(cannotLock)("is reported as a gap instead of silently skipped", async () => {
       const root = await makeRoot();
       await seed(root, "open/a.ts");
       const hidden = await seed(root, "locked/b.ts");
       await chmod(path.dirname(hidden), 0o000);
 
-      const index = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: [root] });
-      await index.prime();
+      const index = await primed([root]);
 
-      // Priming still succeeds — it just cannot see everything, and that is the part that must be said out
-      // loud rather than inferred from a file count nobody is checking.
       expect(index.primed).toBe(true);
       expect(index.trackedFileCount).toBe(1);
       expect(index.coverageGaps).toEqual([{ path: path.dirname(hidden), code: "EACCES" }]);
     });
 
-    test.skipIf(asRoot)("becomes visible again once it is readable, and clears the gap", async () => {
+    test.skipIf(cannotLock)("becomes visible again once it is readable, and clears the gap", async () => {
       const root = await makeRoot();
       const hidden = await seed(root, "locked/b.ts");
       const locked = path.dirname(hidden);
       await chmod(locked, 0o000);
-      const index = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: [root] });
-      await index.prime();
+      const index = await primed([root]);
 
       await chmod(locked, 0o755);
 
-      // Before the fix this stayed empty forever: the directory had been forgotten, so nothing re-stat'd
-      // it, and its parent's mtime never moves when a child merely becomes readable again.
       expect(await index.collectChanges()).toEqual([hidden]);
       expect(index.coverageGaps).toEqual([]);
       await rewrite(hidden, "999");
       expect(await index.collectChanges()).toEqual([hidden]);
     });
 
-    test.skipIf(asRoot)("does not report the files under it as deleted while it is unreadable", async () => {
+    test.skipIf(cannotLock)("does not report the files under it as deleted while it is unreadable", async () => {
       const root = await makeRoot();
       const abs = await seed(root, "locked/b.ts");
       const locked = path.dirname(abs);
-      const index = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: [root] });
-      await index.prime();
+      const index = await primed([root]);
       expect(index.trackedFileCount).toBe(1);
 
       await chmod(locked, 0o000);
 
-      // A phantom deletion would rebuild for nothing and, worse, drop the file so a later real edit to it
-      // goes unreported.
       expect(await index.collectChanges()).toEqual([]);
       expect(index.trackedFileCount).toBe(1);
-      // The locked directory joins the list too whenever this scan happened to re-read it — which depends
-      // on how fresh its mtime still was (see `dirSettleMs`) — so assert what the gap is about rather than
-      // how many entries happen to describe it.
+      // Whether the locked directory itself is listed depends on its mtime freshness, so assert membership, not count.
       expect(index.coverageGaps.map((gap) => gap.path)).toContain(abs);
       expect(index.coverageGaps.every((gap) => gap.code === "EACCES")).toBe(true);
 
@@ -316,8 +261,7 @@ describe("SourceMtimeIndex", () => {
     test("is still forgotten when it is genuinely deleted, with no gap left behind", async () => {
       const root = await makeRoot();
       const abs = await seed(root, "lib/a.ts");
-      const index = new SourceMtimeIndex({ roots: [root] });
-      await index.prime();
+      const index = await primed([root]);
 
       await rm(path.dirname(abs), { recursive: true, force: true });
 

package/frontendBuild/sourceMtimeIndex.ts

@@ -8,55 +8,21 @@ interface TrackedFile {
   size: number;
 }
 
-/**
- * A directory the index could not read, held with this mtime so every subsequent scan sees a mismatch
- * and retries it. `NaN !== NaN`, which is exactly the "always stale" semantics wanted here.
- */
+// NaN never equals a real mtime, so a directory held with it is re-walked on every scan.
 const UNREADABLE = Number.NaN;
 
 export interface SourceMtimeIndexOptions {
   roots: string[];
   classifier?: HmrChangeClassifier;
-  /**
-   * How close to "now" a directory's mtime may be before this scan's reading of it is treated as
-   * possibly stale. Raise it for a filesystem whose timestamps are coarser than the 1ms Linux stamps
-   * directories with — some network mounts stamp whole seconds.
-   */
+  /** Window (ms, default 20) in which a directory's mtime is too fresh to trust; raise it for whole-second stamps. */
   dirSettleMs?: number;
 }
 
-/**
- * A snapshot of every interesting source file's mtime under the watch roots, so the watcher can answer
- * "what actually changed" without trusting `fs.watch` event payloads.
- *
- * Bun 1.3.14's recursive `fs.watch` on macOS reports roughly **one path per ~200ms coalescing window**
- * and discards every other path changed in that window. Measured on this repo: saving 5 files together
- * reports 1; saving 20 reports 2; a single unrelated write landing first in the window hides a
- * concurrent save entirely. Node 22 reports all 20 on the same tree, so this is a Bun defect rather
- * than an FSEvents limitation (`local/optimize-resource/06-watcher-dropped-event.md`).
- *
- * Re-stating the tracked set costs ~15ms against ~1300 source files here, where a fresh walk costs
- * ~70ms — the walk has to visit ~40k entries (`ios/`, `android/`, `public/`) to find those 1300. So
- * changes are found by re-stating known files plus re-reading only the directories whose own mtime
- * moved, which is what adding or removing an entry bumps — with one exception for the window in which
- * that mtime cannot be trusted, see `#defaultDirSettleMs`.
- */
+// Bun's recursive fs.watch reports about one path per ~200ms coalescing window and drops the rest, so changes are
+// found by re-stating known files and re-reading only the directories whose own mtime moved.
 export class SourceMtimeIndex {
-  /**
-   * How close to "now" a directory's mtime may be before this scan's reading of it is treated as
-   * possibly stale, and the directory re-read next time regardless of what its mtime says.
-   *
-   * Linux stamps directory times from a coarse clock. Measured on Bun 1.3.14 under Docker, 400
-   * back-to-back `mkdir`s left the parent's mtime unmoved **319 times on overlayfs and 324 times on
-   * ext4**, smallest observable step 1ms; macOS APFS (0.042ms) and a virtiofs bind mount (0.29ms) missed
-   * none. So a directory mutated in the same millisecond as the value this index recorded — but after the
-   * walk that recorded it — leaves no trace at all, and because its files were never tracked, later edits
-   * to them go unreported too. That is permanent for the life of the process, which is what makes it worth
-   * a second look rather than a note.
-   *
-   * 20ms covers a 1ms tick with room for a `HZ=100` kernel's 10ms, and costs one extra `readdir` per
-   * directory touched in the last 20ms — during a save, a handful.
-   */
+  // Linux stamps directory mtimes on a coarse clock (1ms; 10ms on HZ=100), so a mutation in the same tick as the
+  // recorded value leaves no trace — a directory that fresh is re-read on the next scan.
   static readonly #defaultDirSettleMs = 20;
   readonly #dirSettleMs: number;
   readonly #roots: string[];
@@ -64,7 +30,6 @@ export class SourceMtimeIndex {
   readonly #files = new Map<string, TrackedFile>();
   readonly #dirs = new Map<string, number>();
   readonly #unreadable = new Map<string, string>();
-  /** Directories whose recorded mtime was too fresh to trust, re-read on the next scan. */
   readonly #unsettled = new Set<string>();
   #primed = false;
   #queue: Promise<unknown> = Promise.resolve();
@@ -83,27 +48,17 @@ export class SourceMtimeIndex {
     return this.#files.size;
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Paths the index currently cannot read, as `{ path, code }`. Non-empty means change detection has a
-   * blind spot right now: anything edited underneath one of these is not reported until it recovers.
-   *
-   * Worth surfacing rather than swallowing, because the failure is silent by nature — a walk cannot tell
-   * how much it did not see. Each entry is retried on every scan and clears itself on success.
-   */
+  /** Paths the index cannot read right now; edits beneath them go unreported until a scan succeeds and clears them. */
   get coverageGaps(): { path: string; code: string }[] {
     return [...this.#unreadable].map(([file, code]) => ({ path: file, code }));
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Whether the last scan left a directory whose mtime was too fresh to trust. The caller should scan
-   * again once the timestamp has settled, since nothing else will look at that directory until something
-   * moves its mtime — and on a coarse clock the change that should have moved it already happened.
-   */
+  /** True when the last scan left a directory too fresh to trust; scan again once it settles, since nothing else will. */
   get hasUnsettledDirs(): boolean {
     return this.#unsettled.size > 0;
   }
 
-  /** Record the current state as the baseline. Reports nothing; call before the first `collectChanges`. */
+  /** Baseline the tree; reports nothing. Call before the first `collectChanges`. */
   async prime(): Promise<void> {
     await this.#serialize(async () => {
       this.#files.clear();
@@ -115,11 +70,7 @@ export class SourceMtimeIndex {
     });
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Absolute paths whose content changed (or which disappeared) since the last call, with the baseline
-   * advanced to match. Returns an empty list until primed, so a failed prime degrades to watcher events
-   * rather than reporting the entire tree as changed.
-   */
+  /** Absolute paths changed or removed since the last call (the baseline advances); empty until primed. */
   async collectChanges(): Promise<string[]> {
     return this.#serialize(async () => {
       if (!this.#primed) return [];
@@ -130,29 +81,14 @@ export class SourceMtimeIndex {
     });
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Every scan runs to completion before the next begins.
-   *
-   * Overlapping scans corrupt each other rather than merely racing: one advances the baseline and prunes
-   * entries while the other is midway through a key snapshot it took earlier, so a path the first has
-   * already accounted for reads back as missing and is reported as a change that never happened. Observed
-   * directly — a file nothing had written was reported, which downstream is a wasted rebuild.
-   */
+  // Scans must not overlap: one pruning the baseline mid-snapshot of another reports a change nobody made.
   async #serialize<T>(work: () => Promise<T>): Promise<T> {
     const run = this.#queue.then(work, work);
-    // Swallowed on the chain only; the caller still sees the rejection through `run`.
     this.#queue = run.catch(() => undefined);
     return run;
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Adopt writes the caller made itself — regenerated barrels, inserted imports — into the baseline so
-   * the next `collectChanges` does not report them as a user edit.
-   *
-   * Narrow race worth knowing: a user save of the same path landing between the caller's write and this
-   * call is baselined too, and therefore lost. It is sub-millisecond and no wider than the window the
-   * event-based watcher already had.
-   */
+  /** Baseline the caller's own writes so the next `collectChanges` skips them (a user save racing in between is lost). */
   async absorb(paths: string[]): Promise<void> {
     await this.#serialize(async () => {
       if (!this.#primed) return;
@@ -175,8 +111,7 @@ export class SourceMtimeIndex {
       [...this.#files.keys()].map(async (abs) => {
         const { stats, err } = await SourceMtimeIndex.#statPath(abs);
         if (!stats) {
-          // Unreadable is not deleted. Dropping it here would both invent a change nobody made and stop
-          // tracking the file, so a later real edit would go unreported.
+          // Unreadable is not deleted: dropping it would invent a change and stop tracking the file.
           if (err && !SourceMtimeIndex.#isMissing(err)) {
             this.#unreadable.set(abs, err.code ?? "EUNKNOWN");
             return;
@@ -200,10 +135,6 @@ export class SourceMtimeIndex {
     );
   }
 
-  /**
-   * A directory's own mtime moves when an entry is added or removed but not when a tracked file's
-   * content changes, so this finds creations and deletions the file pass cannot see.
-   */
   async #collectDirChanges(changed: Set<string>): Promise<void> {
     const moved = new Set<string>();
     const gone: string[] = [];
@@ -218,34 +149,21 @@ export class SourceMtimeIndex {
           gone.push(dir);
           return;
         }
-        // `UNREADABLE` is NaN, so a directory retained from a failed read always mismatches and is
-        // rewalked here — that retry is what lets a transient failure recover on its own.
         if (stats.mtimeMs !== mtimeMs) moved.add(dir);
       }),
     );
-    // An unsettled directory is re-read whether or not its mtime moved: on a coarse clock a mutation
-    // that landed in the same tick as the recorded value leaves it identical, so the mtime is exactly
-    // the signal that cannot be trusted here.
     for (const dir of this.#unsettled) if (this.#dirs.has(dir)) moved.add(dir);
     for (const dir of gone) this.#forget(dir);
-    // Sequential: a moved directory can reveal a new subtree, and walking those in order keeps the
-    // number of concurrent `readdir` calls proportional to the change rather than to the tree.
+    // Sequential so concurrent `readdir` calls scale with the change rather than with the tree.
     for (const dir of moved) await this.#walk(dir, changed);
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Re-read one directory, tracking entries that are new or changed. Recurses only into subdirectories
-   * that are new to the index; known ones are covered by their own mtime check in `#collectDirChanges`.
-   */
   async #walk(dir: string, changed: Set<string> | null): Promise<void> {
     const [listing, dirStat] = await Promise.all([SourceMtimeIndex.#readdirPath(dir), SourceMtimeIndex.#statPath(dir)]);
     const entries = listing.entries;
     const dirStats = dirStat.stats;
     if (!entries || !dirStats?.isDirectory()) {
-      // A directory that cannot be read is not a directory that is gone. Forgetting it here is
-      // unrecoverable: nothing re-stats a dir the index has dropped, and the parent's own mtime does not
-      // move when a child merely becomes unreadable, so the whole subtree stays invisible for the life of
-      // the process. Measured: one `EACCES` at prime silently hid 2 of 3 files, permanently.
+      // Unreadable is not gone: nothing re-stats a forgotten directory, so its subtree would stay invisible for good.
       const err = listing.err ?? dirStat.err;
       if (err && !SourceMtimeIndex.#isMissing(err)) {
         this.#markUnreadable(dir, err);
@@ -274,9 +192,7 @@ export class SourceMtimeIndex {
       present.add(abs);
       const { stats, err } = await SourceMtimeIndex.#statPath(abs);
       if (!stats?.isFile()) {
-        // A file listed but not stat-able has no baseline, so an edit to it would compare against nothing.
-        // Leaving the directory stale is what brings it back; the file pass cannot, since it only revisits
-        // paths already tracked.
+        // No baseline for an unstat-able file; leaving the directory stale (below) is what retries it.
         if (err && !SourceMtimeIndex.#isMissing(err)) {
           this.#unreadable.set(abs, err.code ?? "EUNKNOWN");
           blind = true;
@@ -289,8 +205,6 @@ export class SourceMtimeIndex {
       this.#files.set(abs, { mtimeMs: stats.mtimeMs, size: stats.size });
       changed?.add(abs);
     }
-    // Entries this directory used to hold and no longer does. Only worth scanning for a directory the
-    // index already knew, which during `prime` is none of them.
     if (known) {
       for (const abs of [...this.#files.keys()]) {
         if (present.has(abs) || path.dirname(abs) !== dir) continue;
@@ -298,51 +212,35 @@ export class SourceMtimeIndex {
         changed?.add(abs);
       }
     }
-    // `UNREADABLE` already forces a re-walk every scan, so the freshness retry would only duplicate it.
     if (blind) {
       this.#dirs.set(dir, UNREADABLE);
       this.#unsettled.delete(dir);
     }
-    // Known subdirectories carry their own mtime check, so only unseen ones need walking. Concurrent
-    // because `prime` reaches every directory through here.
+    // Known subdirectories carry their own mtime check; concurrent because `prime` walks the whole tree here.
     await Promise.all(descend.filter((sub) => !this.#dirs.has(sub)).map((sub) => this.#walk(sub, changed)));
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Keep a directory the index could not read, flagged for retry on every scan, and keep whatever it
-   * already knows underneath it — those files stay tracked so a real edit is still caught the moment
-   * access returns.
-   */
   #markUnreadable(dir: string, err: NodeJS.ErrnoException): void {
     this.#dirs.set(dir, UNREADABLE);
     this.#unreadable.set(dir, err.code ?? "EUNKNOWN");
     this.#unsettled.delete(dir);
   }
 
-  /** Drop a directory and everything the index holds beneath it. */
   #forget(dir: string): void {
     const prefix = `${dir}${path.sep}`;
     this.#dirs.delete(dir);
     this.#unreadable.delete(dir);
     this.#unsettled.delete(dir);
     for (const known of [...this.#dirs.keys()]) if (known.startsWith(prefix)) this.#dirs.delete(known);
-    // Otherwise a gap under a deleted directory is reported forever, since nothing revisits it to clear.
     for (const known of [...this.#unreadable.keys()]) if (known.startsWith(prefix)) this.#unreadable.delete(known);
-    // Left behind, this would re-walk a path that no longer exists on every scan.
     for (const known of [...this.#unsettled]) if (known.startsWith(prefix)) this.#unsettled.delete(known);
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Whether a directory's mtime is recent enough that another mutation could share its timestamp tick.
-   *
-   * Symmetric so a filesystem clock running *ahead* of this process — a network mount, a container with a
-   * skewed host — does not read as permanently fresh and re-walk the whole tree on every scan.
-   */
+  // Symmetric so a filesystem clock running ahead of this process does not read as permanently fresh.
   #isUnsettled(mtimeMs: number): boolean {
     return Math.abs(Date.now() - mtimeMs) < this.#dirSettleMs;
   }
 
-  /** `null` stats with the errno kept, so callers can tell "not there" from "could not look". */
   static async #statPath(abs: string): Promise<{ stats: Stats | null; err: NodeJS.ErrnoException | null }> {
     try {
       return { stats: await stat(abs), err: null };
@@ -359,20 +257,11 @@ export class SourceMtimeIndex {
     }
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Whether an errno means the path genuinely is not there, which is the only case where dropping it from
-   * the baseline is right. Everything else — `EACCES`, `EIO`, `EMFILE`, a stalled network mount — means the
-   * index failed to look, and treating that as a deletion both invents a change and blinds it to real ones.
-   */
   static #isMissing(err: NodeJS.ErrnoException): boolean {
     return err.code === "ENOENT" || err.code === "ENOTDIR";
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Mirrors `HmrChangeClassifier`'s path rules for directory names — dotted names cover `.git` and
-   * `.akan`, which is where every build artifact lands. Symlinked entries are neither `isFile` nor
-   * `isDirectory` and so are skipped, matching `fs.watch`, which does not follow them either.
-   */
+  // Mirrors HmrChangeClassifier's rules; symlinks are neither file nor directory, so they are skipped as fs.watch does.
   static #skipDirent(name: string): boolean {
     return !name || name.startsWith(".") || name === "node_modules";
   }