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Shutdown seals transcript writes and gives SessionEnd hooks more time

You'll notice
Useful3 Signal3
Hooks

SessionEnd hooks get five seconds instead of 3.5, and the transcript is sealed at exit.

SessionEnd
What

The failsafe timer that forces exit after shutdown begins grew from 3.5 seconds to 5 seconds at both places it is armed, giving SessionEnd hooks more slack. Shutdown can now also seal the session file against further appends, after which both local and remote persistence stop early, and a single final owed entry is written straight to the session file.

Details
  • The seal is one-way for the remainder of the process.
  • The final-entry write replaces the previous exit re-stamp helper.
  • Unconditional; no flag.
Evidence

sealAppendsForShutdown

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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