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<title>catch3/src/Progmasoft/Runner/Process.cpp, branch security/bounded-strings</title>
<subtitle>Progmasoft Catch3: an independently maintained C++17 test framework with a parallel runner, property checks, snapshots and structured results.</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'devel' into security/bounded-strings</title>
<updated>2026-11-15T19:58:40+00:00</updated>
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<name>Leitwolf</name>
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<published>2026-11-15T19:58:40+00:00</published>
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<title>Bound three string and XML reads that analysis flagged</title>
<updated>2026-11-15T19:29:48+00:00</updated>
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<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-15T19:29:48+00:00</published>
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- On macOS, the path from _NSGetExecutablePath is cut at its first NUL
  found inside the buffer, in place of strlen, which reads until a NUL
  wherever it is.
- The table test measures its C strings with std::string_view.
- The Bazel reporter test reads the JUnit report and rejects a document
  type before parsing it, so no entity, external or internal, is ever
  expanded.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ji7xZMYjc4zankoc7hGBE1
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- On macOS, the path from _NSGetExecutablePath is cut at its first NUL
  found inside the buffer, in place of strlen, which reads until a NUL
  wherever it is.
- The table test measures its C strings with std::string_view.
- The Bazel reporter test reads the JUnit report and rejects a document
  type before parsing it, so no entity, external or internal, is ever
  expanded.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ji7xZMYjc4zankoc7hGBE1
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<entry>
<title>License Catch3's Progmasoft files under LGPL-3.0-or-later</title>
<updated>2026-11-15T11:01:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
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<published>2026-11-15T11:01:10+00:00</published>
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Every Progmasoft-authored file moves from MPL-2.0 WITH
AdditionRef-Progmasoft-Exception-2.0 to LGPL-3.0-or-later, from 0.5.0
on. Catch2-originated files keep BSL-1.0, and the vendored yyjson and
pugixml keep MIT.

- LICENSES/ holds the LGPL-3.0 text and the GPL-3.0 text it builds on,
  both as published by the FSF; the MPL-2.0 and Progmasoft Exception
  texts go, since no file uses them any more.
- Five files that came from Catch2 and were rewritten by Progmasoft
  (.clang-format, the issue and pull request templates, SECURITY.md)
  keep Catch2's notice next to Progmasoft's and say
  LGPL-3.0-or-later AND BSL-1.0.
- //tools:check expects the new header of Progmasoft files; the
  amalgamation notes say LGPL-3.0-or-later and the amalgamated files
  are regenerated; meson's project license is BSL-1.0 and
  LGPL-3.0-or-later.
- README gains a License section; LICENSES/README.md, contributing.md
  and progmasoft-catch3.md describe the new split and that releases
  before 0.5.0 keep the license they were published under.

Every commit to Progmasoft's files since the fork is the maintainer's.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ji7xZMYjc4zankoc7hGBE1
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Every Progmasoft-authored file moves from MPL-2.0 WITH
AdditionRef-Progmasoft-Exception-2.0 to LGPL-3.0-or-later, from 0.5.0
on. Catch2-originated files keep BSL-1.0, and the vendored yyjson and
pugixml keep MIT.

- LICENSES/ holds the LGPL-3.0 text and the GPL-3.0 text it builds on,
  both as published by the FSF; the MPL-2.0 and Progmasoft Exception
  texts go, since no file uses them any more.
- Five files that came from Catch2 and were rewritten by Progmasoft
  (.clang-format, the issue and pull request templates, SECURITY.md)
  keep Catch2's notice next to Progmasoft's and say
  LGPL-3.0-or-later AND BSL-1.0.
- //tools:check expects the new header of Progmasoft files; the
  amalgamation notes say LGPL-3.0-or-later and the amalgamated files
  are regenerated; meson's project license is BSL-1.0 and
  LGPL-3.0-or-later.
- README gains a License section; LICENSES/README.md, contributing.md
  and progmasoft-catch3.md describe the new split and that releases
  before 0.5.0 keep the license they were published under.

Every commit to Progmasoft's files since the fork is the maintainer's.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ji7xZMYjc4zankoc7hGBE1
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<entry>
<title>Make the start lock a never-destroyed object</title>
<updated>2026-11-13T21:56:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-13T21:56:32+00:00</published>
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A function-local static std::mutex has an exit-time destructor, which
the macOS build rejects with -Wexit-time-destructors. The lock is now
allocated once and never destroyed, which also keeps it usable by a
thread that starts a child while the process exits.
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A function-local static std::mutex has an exit-time destructor, which
the macOS build rejects with -Wexit-time-destructors. The lock is now
allocated once and never destroyed, which also keeps it usable by a
thread that starts a child while the process exits.
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<entry>
<title>Start child processes one at a time; run gcov without a directory</title>
<updated>2026-11-13T20:24:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-13T20:24:10+00:00</published>
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Reading the coverage profiles on several threads broke an assumption of
ChildProcess::Start on POSIX: it changes the working directory of the
whole process around posix_spawn. Two gcov runs started at once could
both run in one test's directory, so on the GCC job the map of
"Subtracts one" showed what "Adds one" reached.

- ChildProcess::Start holds a lock while a child starts, on POSIX and
  Windows, so the directory change and the handles a child inherits never
  overlap with another start.
- gcov gets the absolute path of the data file and no working directory,
  so no directory changes while profiles are read in parallel.
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Reading the coverage profiles on several threads broke an assumption of
ChildProcess::Start on POSIX: it changes the working directory of the
whole process around posix_spawn. Two gcov runs started at once could
both run in one test's directory, so on the GCC job the map of
"Subtracts one" showed what "Adds one" reached.

- ChildProcess::Start holds a lock while a child starts, on POSIX and
  Windows, so the directory change and the handles a child inherits never
  overlap with another start.
- gcov gets the absolute path of the data file and no working directory,
  so no directory changes while profiles are read in parallel.
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<entry>
<title>Compare Windows variable names in UTF-8 and end an empty block twice</title>
<updated>2026-11-05T23:55:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-05T23:55:57+00:00</published>
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EnvironmentBlock replaced every non-ASCII character of an inherited name
with '?' before asking whether to withhold it, so --pass-env=MY_?_TOKEN
kept an unrelated MY_é_TOKEN. Names are now converted with Narrow, as
everything else the runner compares.

A block whose variables were all withheld, with no additions, ended in one
terminator; CreateProcessW needs two for an empty block.

The amalgamated sources are regenerated for the runner changes.
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EnvironmentBlock replaced every non-ASCII character of an inherited name
with '?' before asking whether to withhold it, so --pass-env=MY_?_TOKEN
kept an unrelated MY_é_TOKEN. Names are now converted with Narrow, as
everything else the runner compares.

A block whose variables were all withheld, with no additions, ended in one
terminator; CreateProcessW needs two for an empty block.

The amalgamated sources are regenerated for the runner changes.
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<entry>
<title>Withhold secret-looking variables from the processes the runner starts</title>
<updated>2026-11-05T15:30:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-05T15:30:13+00:00</published>
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Workers and the other processes the runner starts copied its whole
environment, tokens and passwords included. ChildProcess::Start now
leaves out every variable whose name contains, in any case, TOKEN,
SECRET, PASSWORD, PASSWD, CREDENTIAL, API_KEY, APIKEY, PRIVATE_KEY or
ACCESS_KEY (IsSecretVariable), unless ChildOptions::keptEnvironment
names it; names compare without case on Windows.

--pass-env=NAME, repeatable, and "pass-env" in catch3.json keep a
variable for the tests. The runner itself still starts with the whole
environment, so code that runs before the first worker sees it;
docs/progmasoft-runner.md says so.

A runner test starts the shell's environment listing with a secret and
a plain variable set, sees only the plain one, and sees the secret once
it is kept.
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Workers and the other processes the runner starts copied its whole
environment, tokens and passwords included. ChildProcess::Start now
leaves out every variable whose name contains, in any case, TOKEN,
SECRET, PASSWORD, PASSWD, CREDENTIAL, API_KEY, APIKEY, PRIVATE_KEY or
ACCESS_KEY (IsSecretVariable), unless ChildOptions::keptEnvironment
names it; names compare without case on Windows.

--pass-env=NAME, repeatable, and "pass-env" in catch3.json keep a
variable for the tests. The runner itself still starts with the whole
environment, so code that runs before the first worker sees it;
docs/progmasoft-runner.md says so.

A runner test starts the shell's environment listing with a secret and
a plain variable set, sees only the plain one, and sees the secret once
it is kept.
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<entry>
<title>Move to the Progmasoft Linking Exception, Version 2.0</title>
<updated>2026-10-31T10:42:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-10-31T10:42:35+00:00</published>
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Version 1.1 left programs built with Progmasoft tools under MPL-2.0 duties
for the code the tools place in them, and left other cases unclear.
Version 2.0 adds a generated code permission, covers runtime and standard
libraries, compiler transformations, interfaces and examples, and settles
how a file is identified and how to tell recipients about source.

Every project SPDX expression moves to AdditionRef-Progmasoft-Exception-2.0.
The older texts stay, because released versions name them.
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Version 1.1 left programs built with Progmasoft tools under MPL-2.0 duties
for the code the tools place in them, and left other cases unclear.
Version 2.0 adds a generated code permission, covers runtime and standard
libraries, compiler transformations, interfaces and examples, and settles
how a file is identified and how to tell recipients about source.

Every project SPDX expression moves to AdditionRef-Progmasoft-Exception-2.0.
The older texts stay, because released versions name them.
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<entry>
<title>Finish the move to C++17 in POSIX code and the amalgamated files</title>
<updated>2026-10-31T10:36:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-10-31T10:36:43+00:00</published>
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A lambda in the POSIX half of Process.cpp captured a structured binding,
which needs C++20 and which a Windows build never compiles. The files in
extras still held the C++20 sources, so they are generated again, and the
generator no longer says the runner needs C++20.
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A lambda in the POSIX half of Process.cpp captured a structured binding,
which needs C++20 and which a Windows build never compiles. The files in
extras still held the C++20 sources, so they are generated again, and the
generator no longer says the runner needs C++20.
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<entry>
<title>Build Catch3 as C++17</title>
<updated>2026-10-31T10:00:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-10-31T10:00:24+00:00</published>
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C++17 is still the widest common target, and a library built on it stays
usable from C++17 and every later standard, while C++20 would have left
out many users.

Concepts become enable_if on named traits in Detail/TypeTraits.hpp, which
also replaces std::remove_cvref_t and std::identity. std::span becomes
std::vector references, std::bit_cast becomes static_cast and memcpy,
template lambdas become helper templates, and std::erase_if, contains,
starts_with and ends_with have their C++17 forms. Random::Between no
longer uses a lambda over a constexpr local, which MSVC rejects outside
/permissive-, so the headers work under its default mode too.

Tests give up designated initializers, which MSVC refuses in C++17. CI
builds the matrix in C++17 and C++20, since the headers promise both.
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C++17 is still the widest common target, and a library built on it stays
usable from C++17 and every later standard, while C++20 would have left
out many users.

Concepts become enable_if on named traits in Detail/TypeTraits.hpp, which
also replaces std::remove_cvref_t and std::identity. std::span becomes
std::vector references, std::bit_cast becomes static_cast and memcpy,
template lambdas become helper templates, and std::erase_if, contains,
starts_with and ends_with have their C++17 forms. Random::Between no
longer uses a lambda over a constexpr local, which MSVC rejects outside
/permissive-, so the headers work under its default mode too.

Tests give up designated initializers, which MSVC refuses in C++17. CI
builds the matrix in C++17 and C++20, since the headers promise both.
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