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It is a programming error to Publish or Subscribe on a closed Client, but now
the way you discover that is by getting a panic from down in the machinery of
the bus after the client state has been cleaned up.

To provide a more helpful error, let's panic explicitly when that happens and
say what went wrong ("the client is closed"), by preventing subscriptions from
interleaving with closure of the client. With this change, either an attachment
fails outright (because the client is already closed) or completes and then
shuts down in good order in the normal course.

This does not change the semantics of the client, publishers, or subscribers,
it's just making the failure more eager so we can attach explanatory text.

Updates #15160

Change-Id: Ia492f4c1dea7535aec2cdcc2e5ea5410ed5218d2
Signed-off-by: M. J. Fromberger fromberger@tailscale.com

It is a programming error to Publish or Subscribe on a closed Client, but now
the way you discover that is by getting a panic from down in the machinery of
the bus after the client state has been cleaned up.

To provide a more helpful error, let's panic explicitly when that happens and
say what went wrong ("the client is closed"), by preventing subscriptions from
interleaving with closure of the client. With this change, either an attachment
fails outright (because the client is already closed) or completes and then
shuts down in good order in the normal course.

This does not change the semantics of the client, publishers, or subscribers,
it's just making the failure more eager so we can attach explanatory text.

Updates #15160

Change-Id: Ia492f4c1dea7535aec2cdcc2e5ea5410ed5218d2
Signed-off-by: M. J. Fromberger <fromberger@tailscale.com>
@creachadair creachadair marked this pull request as ready for review September 22, 2025 05:38
@creachadair creachadair requested a review from cmol September 22, 2025 05:38
@creachadair creachadair merged commit e59fbaa into main Sep 22, 2025
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@creachadair creachadair deleted the mjf/nicer-errors branch September 22, 2025 14:08
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