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An AppImage downloaded into a folder answered "no application on this system opened that file" on Enter, because that is the truthful answer to the question `flea --open` asks: `gio open` looks the file up in the desktop database and nothing on a stock box claims `application/vnd.appimage`. The file was already marked executable and the row was already drawn in the executable colour, so the window was refusing to start a program it was itself calling one. Running is a different verb from opening, so it is its own mode rather than a branch inside `--open`: folding the two together would make `chmod +x` on a document silently change what opening it means, and opening stays the desktop's decision. `flea --run <path>` carries src/open.rs's three guards for the same three reasons -- canonicalize, /dev/null on all three descriptors, its own process group -- plus `thp::enable()` before the spawn, and spawns without waiting the way src/terminal.rs does, because the program outlives Flea. It runs in the program's own folder, because a program dropped in a directory looks for what sits beside it. Its statuses extend --open's rather than starting a second numbering: 0 started, 2 a path that resolved to nothing or a file the kernel refused to exec, 3 a directory, and 4 the one this mode adds, a target that is not a regular file carrying an execute bit. Flea never sets that bit itself; PermissionsDialog is where the operator does. ui/js/Nav.js routes the row, one branch after the archive one so the 0.1.4 archive ruling is untouched, and nothing is lost by that order because an AppImage is application-x-executable in generic-icons here and never reaches the archive classifier. A .desktop entry stays with the desktop, which is the only thing that can read the Exec line inside it. Success is silent, a refusal speaks, and the single-flight guard carries the 15 s deadline the rule asks for: everything after canonicalize is a spawn that returns, and canonicalize is the one call that can hang, inside a dead network mount. tests/modes.sh drives the mode against a stub that is the program itself, with no handoff binary in between: argv, the working directory, the three guards, both refusals, the directory's silence and the usage errors. tests/js/nav.js pins the routing including the two answers that must not move, and tests/js/format.js pins isRunnable against the kinds that carry an execute bit and are not programs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds ChangesProgram run mode
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Nav as Nav.openCursor
participant Opener
participant CLI as flea --run
participant Runner as program::run
participant Child
Nav->>Opener: run(path)
Opener->>CLI: start with path
CLI->>Runner: run(path)
Runner->>Child: validate, configure, and spawn
Child-->>Runner: starts without wait
Runner-->>CLI: return status
CLI-->>Opener: process exits
Opener-->>Opener: report failure or busy state
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A raced launch can execute a substituted program, while a helper stuck on an unavailable mount can prevent all later UI launches. These issues should be fixed before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@AGENTS.md`:
- Around line 3814-3823: Update the status `4` contract documentation to state
that it covers any non-regular target or a regular target without an execute
bit, matching the `NOT_EXECUTABLE` behavior in `src/program.rs`. Preserve the
existing status meanings for `0`, `2`, and `3`.
In `@src/program.rs`:
- Around line 63-71: Update run() to eliminate the validated-path-to-spawn race:
open the target and parent directory before validation, validate the opened
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platform-specific descriptor execution such as execveat or fexecve. Configure
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- Line 101: Replace the timeout logic around runChild.running with a separate
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rather than treating running = false as process completion. Terminate and clean
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| The exit statuses are the whole contract, and they extend `--open`'s rather than inventing a second | ||
| numbering: `0` is a started program, `2` is a path that resolved to nothing and a file the kernel | ||
| refused to exec, `3` means the resolved target is a directory and carries no output at all, and `4` | ||
| is the one status this mode adds, a target that is not a regular file carrying an execute bit. `2` | ||
| covers the two exec failures together because the window says the same sentence for both and neither | ||
| is the operator's to fix: measured here against a file with the bit set and no shebang, one with a | ||
| broken ELF header and one naming an interpreter that does not exist, all three come back from | ||
| `spawn()` as an error rather than as a started program, so Rust reports the failed exec and does not | ||
| fall back to a shell the way `execvp(3)` would. `4` is separate because it is the one refusal the | ||
| operator can act on, and the window says so in its own words. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Correct the status 4 contract.
src/program.rs, Lines 41-44, returns NOT_EXECUTABLE for every non-regular target before it reads permission bits. Therefore, a non-executable device or FIFO also returns 4. Describe 4 as a non-regular target or a regular target with no execute bit.
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In `@AGENTS.md` around lines 3814 - 3823, Update the status `4` contract
documentation to state that it covers any non-regular target or a regular target
without an execute bit, matching the `NOT_EXECUTABLE` behavior in
`src/program.rs`. Preserve the existing status meanings for `0`, `2`, and `3`.
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| let started = Command::new(&target) | ||
| .current_dir(&folder) | ||
| // The program outlives us, so an inherited pipe would kill it on its first write; see AGENTS.md "Opening a file". | ||
| .stdin(Stdio::null()) | ||
| .stdout(Stdio::null()) | ||
| .stderr(Stdio::null()) | ||
| // Its own process group, so nothing that later kills Flea's group reaches the program. | ||
| .process_group(0) | ||
| .spawn(); |
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Length of output: 15955
Reachability: External
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-367 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Use descriptor-based launch to prevent the target race.
run() validates the canonical path with metadata, then resolves that path again in Command::new(&target).spawn(). If another principal can modify the parent directory, it can replace the validated entry before spawn. Flea can then execute a different program under the user's identity. The checks provide user-facing refusal statuses, not an object-identity security boundary.
Open the target and its parent directory before validation. Validate the opened target with descriptor-based metadata, then launch that same descriptor and use the opened directory for the working directory. Use platform-specific descriptor execution such as execveat/fexecve instead of passing &target to Command::new.
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In `@src/program.rs` around lines 63 - 71, Update run() to eliminate the
validated-path-to-spawn race: open the target and parent directory before
validation, validate the opened target via descriptor-based metadata, and launch
that same descriptor using platform-specific descriptor execution such as
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| // Ending the guard, not the program: by now it has either started or was never going to. | ||
| onTriggered: { | ||
| root.runTimedOut = true | ||
| runChild.running = false |
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Do not treat running = false as a completed timeout.
This assignment only sends SIGTERM. Quickshell keeps runChild.running true until the process exits. (quickshell.org)
If canonicalize remains blocked on a dead mount, Line 72 rejects every later launch after the timeout reports failure. The single-flight guard is therefore not bounded.
Use a separate per-attempt ownership token. Release that token at the deadline, and terminate and clean up the timed-out helper independently. A fresh attempt must not reuse a Process that still owns the blocked child.
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In `@ui/Opener.qml` at line 101, Replace the timeout logic around runChild.running
with a separate per-attempt ownership token that is released when the deadline
is reached, rather than treating running = false as process completion.
Terminate and clean up the timed-out helper independently, and ensure subsequent
launches create a fresh Process instead of reusing one still blocked in
canonicalize.
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An AppImage downloaded into a folder and marked executable answers "No application on this system opened that file." on Enter. That is the truthful answer to the question
flea --openasks —gio openlooks the file up in the desktop database, and nothing on a stock box claimsapplication/vnd.appimage— but the row beside it is already drawn inTheme.color.executable, off the same mode. The window was refusing to start a program it was itself calling one.Running is a different verb from opening, so this is its own mode rather than a branch inside
--open: a.shfile with an execute bit is a program to the kernel and a text file to the database, and folding the two together would makechmod +xon a document silently change what opening it means. Opening stays the desktop's decision, exactly as "Opening a file" leaves it.What it does
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PermissionsDialogis where they make it;tests/modes.shpins the refused file's mode afterward so a later convenience cannot quietly become that.ui/Row.qmlalready draws the row in the executable colour off this same mode, so the listing has said the file is a program before Enter is pressed.ui/js/Menu.jssits on its 300-line hard cap andui/PaneMenuActions.qmlon its 400-line one, so a Run row needs a split before it needs code. Enter,land a double click all reachopenCursor, so the route is reachable from all three without it. Happy to do the split and the row as a follow-up if you want them.src/tui/actions.rsandsrc/tui/model.rsstill callopen::openalone.ui/PaneWire.qmlcarries the opener's other sentences and is at its recorded 481 lines, so they land inui/Pane.qmlbeside the pane's own. Say the word if you would rather re-record that file and keep them together.Tests
tests/modes.shdrives the mode against a stub that is the program, with no handoff binary in between: argv, the working directory, the three guards, the symlink, both refusals, the fifo, the directory's silence, the usage errors, and the huge pages handed back under a stubqs.tests/js/nav.jspins the routing, including the two answers that must not move, plus the marked archive, the.desktopexception and the directory.tests/js/format.jspinsisRunnableagainst the kinds that carry an execute bit and are not programs.AGENTS.mdgains "Running a program" beside "Opening a file", and the module map gainsprogram.rs— named for what it starts rather than for its flag, becausebackend/run.rsis the command loop and tworun.rswould make every sentence about either one ambiguous.Gates run here
cargo builddebug and release, zero warnings ·cargo test704 passed ·tests/js.sh3864 checks, 0 failed ·tests/modes.sh159 ok ·tools/flea-file-budgetclean,ui/Pane.qmlat 661 of its recorded 663 ·tools/flea-qmllint-gatebyte-identical tomainapart from the one extraProcess onExitedit counts../tests/run-all.sh: 25 suites run, 9 failed — the same 9, suite for suite, asmainon this box (no display forshellload, missing media fixtures,FLEA_FIXTURE_ROOTmoved off/home/flea-sandboxbecause this box has no root for it). Diffing the two runs' suite outcomes gives an empty diff.Driven against the real thing on Omarchy/Hyprland: Enter on
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