`bash -c` does not bind to the token that follows it: short-option parsing
continues and the command string is the first operand, so `bash -c -l <cmd>`
runs `<cmd>` as a login shell. brush's clap CLI instead binds `-c` to the next
token and rejects one shaped like an option, so every command the agent CLI
sent as `-c -l <cmd>` inside naros-agent failed with
error: a value is required for '-c <COMMAND>' but none was supplied
Since narOS diverts /bin/sh, /bin/bash and /bin/dash to nash, that broke every
command in the container. nash's compat fallback did not cover it either: it
read "-l" as the command, which parses fine as bash, so no fallback fired.
Normalize the argv before clap sees it, hoisting short options that sit between
the `-c` group and its command ahead of that group (`-c -l cmd` -> `-l -c cmd`),
including value-taking ones (`-c -o xtrace cmd`, `-c -oxtrace cmd`). Only short
options are hoisted — bash itself rejects long options once short-option parsing
has begun — and anything not positively identified as an option ends the scan,
so a command string is never mistaken for a flag. Teach nash's dash_c_command()
the same rule so the parse-failure fallback checks the real command.
Also repair the observe test harness, which could not run under a normal macOS
TMPDIR: it named its socket directory with `{:?}` of an Instant (~45 chars),
overflowing sun_path, and never cleaned up, so a recycled pid inherited a stale
socket and failed the bind with AlreadyExists. Route every scratch directory
through a helper that keeps names short, falls back to /tmp when the socket path
would not fit, clears stale state, and drops the directory when the sink dies.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
The manifest-stamping RUN's multi-line jq filter lacked Dockerfile line
continuations (newlines inside shell quotes do not continue an instruction),
so the first real docker build died with 'unknown instruction: |'. Join the
filter with backslash continuations — the parser strips them, jq receives one
line.
shell/corpus/overhead.py is the M3 <3% wall-clock gate harness: alternating
bash/nash corpus rounds (observation spooling on for nash), median totals.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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