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+aether
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aether_dsc-0.2.0/PKG-INFO

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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: aether-dsc
+Version: 0.2.0
+Summary: aether-dsc — the sealed AETHER header payload: opaque, digest-named, no readable source in the wheel
+Author: Alessandro Masat
+License: Apache-2.0
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/amasat01/aether
+Project-URL: Documentation, https://amasat01.github.io/aether/
+Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/amasat01/aether
+Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Requires-Python: >=3.9
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+License-File: LICENSE
+License-File: NOTICE
+Provides-Extra: test
+Requires-Dist: pytest; extra == "test"
+Dynamic: license-file
+
+# aether-dsc
+
+The sealed AETHER header payload.
+
+## What the payload is
+
+aether ships to Python-only users as ONE opaque, digest-named blob instead of
+readable headers inside a wheel's include tree. `aether_dsc.payload()`
+returns a `Payload(digest, headers)`: `digest` is a sha256 over the sorted
+`(name, bytes)` pairs of `headers`; `headers` maps include-relative names
+(`aether/...`, `rtc/<std name>`, `plugin/gref_layout.h`, `plugin/gref_abi.h`)
+to bytes — the exact set an NVRTC-compiled HAWK device kernel needs, plus
+what a host compiler needs through `Payload.serve()`.
+
+Two consumers: **device** — NVRTC compiles a kernel straight from
+`payload().headers`, in memory, nothing written to disk; **host, or any
+file-only compiler** — `payload().serve()` is a context manager materialising
+the headers into a private, owner-only (`0700`) RAM directory (`/dev/shm`
+when it is a tmpfs, else `$TMPDIR`), removed on both the normal exit path
+AND a `with`-block exception.
+
+## How to seal one
+
+```bash
+python -m aether_dsc.seal
+```
+Reads this checkout's aether headers — scoped to the committed manifest
+`aether_dsc/payload_headers.txt` (package data, not every file under
+`aether/` — see that file's comment for why) — the seven `rtc/` shims, and
+the sibling `eagle` checkout's `plugin/gref_layout.h` + `plugin/gref_abi.h`
+(host path only — NVRTC gets an alias to the layout header's bytes instead);
+runs the NVRTC-clean gate (every device-reachable header compiles under
+NVRTC with zero diagnostics); only then writes
+`aether_dsc/_payload/<digest>.bin` — a payload failing the gate is
+refused, never shipped silently broken.
+
+## Opacity, not secrecy
+
+The blob is a zlib-compressed tar — not obfuscation against a determined
+reader, just enough that `strings`/`cat` on the wheel does not hand back
+readable C++ source.

aether_dsc-0.2.0/README.md

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+# aether-dsc
+
+The sealed AETHER header payload.
+
+## What the payload is
+
+aether ships to Python-only users as ONE opaque, digest-named blob instead of
+readable headers inside a wheel's include tree. `aether_dsc.payload()`
+returns a `Payload(digest, headers)`: `digest` is a sha256 over the sorted
+`(name, bytes)` pairs of `headers`; `headers` maps include-relative names
+(`aether/...`, `rtc/<std name>`, `plugin/gref_layout.h`, `plugin/gref_abi.h`)
+to bytes — the exact set an NVRTC-compiled HAWK device kernel needs, plus
+what a host compiler needs through `Payload.serve()`.
+
+Two consumers: **device** — NVRTC compiles a kernel straight from
+`payload().headers`, in memory, nothing written to disk; **host, or any
+file-only compiler** — `payload().serve()` is a context manager materialising
+the headers into a private, owner-only (`0700`) RAM directory (`/dev/shm`
+when it is a tmpfs, else `$TMPDIR`), removed on both the normal exit path
+AND a `with`-block exception.
+
+## How to seal one
+
+```bash
+python -m aether_dsc.seal
+```
+Reads this checkout's aether headers — scoped to the committed manifest
+`aether_dsc/payload_headers.txt` (package data, not every file under
+`aether/` — see that file's comment for why) — the seven `rtc/` shims, and
+the sibling `eagle` checkout's `plugin/gref_layout.h` + `plugin/gref_abi.h`
+(host path only — NVRTC gets an alias to the layout header's bytes instead);
+runs the NVRTC-clean gate (every device-reachable header compiles under
+NVRTC with zero diagnostics); only then writes
+`aether_dsc/_payload/<digest>.bin` — a payload failing the gate is
+refused, never shipped silently broken.
+
+## Opacity, not secrecy
+
+The blob is a zlib-compressed tar — not obfuscation against a determined
+reader, just enough that `strings`/`cat` on the wheel does not hand back
+readable C++ source.

aether_dsc-0.2.0/aether_dsc/__init__.py

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+# Copyright 2026 Alessandro Masat
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+"""aether-dsc — the sealed AETHER header payload.
+
+aether ships to Python-only users as a SEALED PAYLOAD, never as readable
+headers inside a wheel's include tree: one digest-named, zlib-compressed tar
+blob (opacity, not secrecy — see :mod:`aether_dsc._core`) carrying the
+`aether/`/`rtc/` headers a HAWK-emitted device kernel needs, plus eagle's
+`plugin/gref_layout.h` (device-clean) and `plugin/gref_abi.h` (host-only —
+NVRTC never sees its real bytes; :mod:`hawk.compile.nvrtc` serves an alias to
+the layout header's instead). Two consumers:
+
+* **device** — NVRTC compiles a kernel straight from :func:`payload`'s
+  in-memory `headers` mapping; nothing touches disk.
+* **host, or any file-only compiler** — :meth:`Payload.serve` materialises
+  the payload into a private, owner-only RAM directory for the compile's
+  lifetime and removes it afterwards, failure path included.
+
+Typical use::
+
+    import aether_dsc
+    p = aether_dsc.payload()        # the blob shipped in this wheel
+    # device: hand p.digest / p.headers to NVRTC (hawk.compile.nvrtc)
+    with p.serve() as include_root:  # host / any file compiler
+        ...                          # -I include_root
+
+Building a payload from a live checkout (never the shipped-wheel path — a
+developer's own aether tree, or the CLI that regenerates the shipped blob)
+goes through :func:`seal`; see :mod:`aether_dsc.seal`'s module docstring.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from ._core import Payload, PAYLOAD_DIR, _unpack, digest_of
+# Imported from `_seal_impl`, deliberately NOT from `.seal`:
+# `aether_dsc/seal.py` is `python -m aether_dsc.seal`'s CLI file, and
+# Python binds `aether_dsc.seal` to that MODULE the instant anything imports
+# it — which running the CLI does internally. Importing the function from
+# its own home (`_seal_impl.py`) instead means `aether_dsc.seal` stays
+# callable even in a process that has also run the CLI or imported
+# `aether_dsc.seal` as a submodule (see `_seal_impl`'s docstring;
+# `tests/test_aether_dsc.py` exercises both in one process).
+from ._seal_impl import seal
+
+__all__ = ["Payload", "seal", "payload", "version", "PAYLOAD_DIR"]
+
+#: This distribution's version — tracks aether's own (`aether/version.h`:
+#: `constexpr version()`), because a sealed payload speaks for exactly one
+#: aether checkout and a version skew between the two would silently claim
+#: otherwise.
+version = "0.2.0"
+
+_PAYLOAD_CACHE: Payload | None = None
+
+
+def payload() -> Payload:
+    """The sealed blob shipped in this distribution — decompressed
+    once per process and cached; every call after the first returns the same
+    object.
+
+    Raises `FileNotFoundError` when this checkout carries no blob yet (a
+    source tree that has never run ``python -m aether_dsc.seal``, or an
+    editable install before the first seal). Nothing here falls back to
+    sealing the live tree — that fallback belongs to
+    ``hawk.compile.payload.current_payload()``, gated on
+    `$HAWK_AETHER_INCLUDE`: a caller that wants "seal if there is no
+    blob" asks for it explicitly, `payload()` never guesses.
+    """
+    global _PAYLOAD_CACHE
+    if _PAYLOAD_CACHE is not None:
+        return _PAYLOAD_CACHE
+    blobs = sorted(PAYLOAD_DIR.glob("*.bin")) if PAYLOAD_DIR.is_dir() else []
+    if not blobs:
+        raise FileNotFoundError(
+            f"no sealed payload under {PAYLOAD_DIR} — run `python -m "
+            "aether_dsc.seal` from the aether/dsc checkout to build one")
+    if len(blobs) > 1:
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            f"{PAYLOAD_DIR} carries {len(blobs)} blobs "
+            f"({[b.name for b in blobs]}) — exactly one is expected; a stale "
+            "blob from a previous seal was not cleaned up")
+    blob_path = blobs[0]
+    claimed_digest = blob_path.stem
+    headers, host_only_names = _unpack(blob_path.read_bytes())
+    actual_digest = digest_of(headers)
+    if actual_digest != claimed_digest:
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"{blob_path} is named for digest {claimed_digest} but its content "
+            f"digests to {actual_digest} — corrupt or hand-edited blob")
+    _PAYLOAD_CACHE = Payload(actual_digest, headers, host_only_names)
+    return _PAYLOAD_CACHE
+
+
+def _reset_payload_cache() -> None:
+    """Test/dev hook: forget the cached :func:`payload` so a re-seal (or a
+    freshly written blob in a test's tmp `_payload/` dir) is picked up
+    without restarting the process."""
+    global _PAYLOAD_CACHE
+    _PAYLOAD_CACHE = None

aether_dsc-0.2.0/aether_dsc/_core.py

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+# Copyright 2026 Alessandro Masat
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+"""The `Payload` type and its (de)serialisation — everything `aether_dsc`
+needs at IMPORT time, with zero third-party dependencies. Kept apart
+from :mod:`aether_dsc.seal`, which needs `cuda-bindings` for its NVRTC-clean
+gate: an ordinary consumer who only ever calls `payload()`/`.serve()` must
+never pay for (or need installed) a CUDA binding just to unpack a blob.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import contextlib
+import hashlib
+import io
+import os
+import shutil
+import tarfile
+import tempfile
+import zlib
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Iterator, Mapping
+
+__all__ = ["Payload", "PAYLOAD_DIR", "digest_of"]
+
+#: Where a sealed blob lives once `python -m aether_dsc.seal` has written one
+#: — `aether_dsc/_payload/<digest>.bin`, shipped as package data.
+PAYLOAD_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "_payload"
+
+
+def digest_of(headers: Mapping[str, bytes]) -> str:
+    """The payload's content digest: sha256 over the
+    SORTED `(name, bytes)` pairs. Sorting is what makes it order-independent
+    — two payloads built by walking the same files in a different order (a
+    different filesystem, a different `os.walk` order) still digest to the
+    same value, and a single renamed or altered file changes it.
+    """
+    h = hashlib.sha256()
+    for name in sorted(headers):
+        encoded = name.encode()
+        h.update(len(encoded).to_bytes(4, "big"))
+        h.update(encoded)
+        data = headers[name]
+        h.update(len(data).to_bytes(8, "big"))
+        h.update(data)
+    return h.hexdigest()
+
+
+#: The tar member :func:`_pack`/:func:`_unpack` use to carry the host-only
+#: name set through the blob. Never a real header's own name — every real
+#: payload entry spells ``aether/...``, ``rtc/...`` or ``plugin/...``, so a
+#: bare dunder name with no such prefix cannot collide with one, now or as
+#: the manifests grow.
+_HOST_ONLY_MANIFEST_MEMBER = "__host_only_names__"
+
+
+def _pack(headers: Mapping[str, bytes],
+          host_only_names: frozenset[str] = frozenset()) -> bytes:
+    """Serialise `headers` (both sections — NVRTC-clean and host-only —
+    already merged into one mapping by the caller) to the on-disk blob
+    format: a zlib-compressed tar, one member per header plus one more
+    (:data:`_HOST_ONLY_MANIFEST_MEMBER`) naming which of those members are
+    host-only, newline-joined and sorted. Opacity, not secrecy, so a viewer
+    cannot casually `strings` or `cat` the payload."""
+    buf = io.BytesIO()
+    with tarfile.open(fileobj=buf, mode="w") as tf:
+        for name in sorted(headers):
+            data = headers[name]
+            info = tarfile.TarInfo(name=name)
+            info.size = len(data)
+            tf.addfile(info, io.BytesIO(data))
+        if host_only_names:
+            data = "\n".join(sorted(host_only_names)).encode()
+            info = tarfile.TarInfo(name=_HOST_ONLY_MANIFEST_MEMBER)
+            info.size = len(data)
+            tf.addfile(info, io.BytesIO(data))
+    return zlib.compress(buf.getvalue(), level=9)
+
+
+def _unpack(blob: bytes) -> tuple[dict[str, bytes], frozenset[str]]:
+    """The inverse of :func:`_pack`: ``(headers, host_only_names)`` — the
+    latter empty when the blob predates the host-only section (an older
+    payload sealed only the NVRTC-clean set)."""
+    raw = zlib.decompress(blob)
+    headers: dict[str, bytes] = {}
+    host_only_names: frozenset[str] = frozenset()
+    with tarfile.open(fileobj=io.BytesIO(raw), mode="r") as tf:
+        for member in tf.getmembers():
+            if not member.isfile():
+                continue
+            extracted = tf.extractfile(member)
+            data = extracted.read() if extracted else b""
+            if member.name == _HOST_ONLY_MANIFEST_MEMBER:
+                host_only_names = frozenset(
+                    ln for ln in data.decode().splitlines() if ln)
+            else:
+                headers[member.name] = data
+    return headers, host_only_names
+
+
+def _is_tmpfs(path: Path) -> bool:
+    """Whether `path` is itself a tmpfs mount (prefer `/dev/shm` when it is
+    one). Read from `/proc/mounts` rather than assumed from the name —
+    `/dev/shm` is conventional, not guaranteed, and measurement found a box
+    where a private tmpfs mount is refused entirely (SELinux enforcing), so
+    this function only ever REPORTS what is already mounted, never mounts
+    anything itself."""
+    try:
+        target = str(path.resolve())
+    except OSError:
+        return False
+    try:
+        with open("/proc/mounts") as f:
+            for line in f:
+                parts = line.split()
+                if len(parts) >= 3 and parts[1] == target and parts[2] == "tmpfs":
+                    return True
+    except OSError:
+        return False
+    return False
+
+
+def _ram_dir() -> Path:
+    """Where :meth:`Payload.serve` stages files: `/dev/shm` when it is a
+    tmpfs, else `$TMPDIR` (the measured fallback when a private mount
+    namespace is refused)."""
+    shm = Path("/dev/shm")
+    if shm.is_dir() and _is_tmpfs(shm):
+        return shm
+    return Path(os.environ.get("TMPDIR", "/tmp"))
+
+
+class Payload:
+    """A sealed set of headers plus its content digest.
+
+    `headers` maps include-relative names (`aether/...`, `rtc/<std name>`,
+    `plugin/gref_layout.h`) to their bytes; `digest` is :func:`digest_of`
+    applied to that mapping — two `Payload` instances with the same file set and
+    content always carry the same digest, independent of how or in what
+    order their files were discovered (:mod:`aether_dsc.seal`'s own
+    order-independence guarantee, exercised by
+    `tests/test_aether_dsc.py::test_seal_digest_order_independent`).
+
+    `host_only_names` names the subset of `headers` that is the HOST-ONLY
+    section: sealed (so :meth:`serve` writes them out for a host `-I` root
+    exactly like every other entry) but never claimed NVRTC-clean and never
+    handed to an NVRTC compile — see :attr:`device_headers`. `digest` covers
+    `headers` whole, host-only entries included, so a changed host-only file
+    changes the digest too (the cache-validity term every compile keys on).
+    """
+
+    __slots__ = ("digest", "headers", "host_only_names")
+
+    def __init__(self, digest: str, headers: Mapping[str, bytes],
+                host_only_names: frozenset[str] = frozenset()):
+        self.digest = digest
+        self.headers = dict(headers)
+        self.host_only_names = frozenset(host_only_names)
+
+    def __repr__(self) -> str:  # pragma: no cover - debugging aid
+        return (f"Payload(digest={self.digest[:12]}…, {len(self.headers)} headers, "
+                f"{len(self.host_only_names)} host-only)")
+
+    @property
+    def device_headers(self) -> dict[str, bytes]:
+        """`headers` minus the host-only section — what an NVRTC compile is
+        actually served (:mod:`hawk.compile.drivers`'s device path,
+        :mod:`hawk.compile.nvrtc`'s public ``device``/``cubin``): the
+        host-only headers are never NVRTC-clean-checked and must never
+        reach NVRTC even as an unreferenced, served-but-unused file."""
+        if not self.host_only_names:
+            return self.headers
+        return {k: v for k, v in self.headers.items() if k not in self.host_only_names}
+
+    @contextlib.contextmanager
+    def serve(self) -> Iterator[Path]:
+        """Materialise every header into a PRIVATE, owner-only directory for
+        the compile's lifetime, then remove it — on the normal exit path and
+        when the `with` block raises.
+
+        Prefers a tmpfs (`/dev/shm`, checked via `/proc/mounts` — never
+        assumed from the path alone) so nothing touches spinning or
+        networked storage; falls back to `$TMPDIR` otherwise. A private
+        mount namespace with its own tmpfs is an opportunistic upgrade this
+        function does not attempt: measurement found it refused outright on
+        an SELinux-enforcing box, so the plain RAM directory is the one
+        path every caller can rely on.
+        """
+        base = _ram_dir()
+        base.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        served = Path(tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="aether_dsc_", dir=str(base)))
+        os.chmod(served, 0o700)
+        try:
+            for name, data in self.headers.items():
+                dest = served / name
+                dest.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+                dest.write_bytes(data)
+                os.chmod(dest, 0o600)
+            yield served
+        finally:
+            shutil.rmtree(served, ignore_errors=True)