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Author SHA1 Message Date
Brad Fitzpatrick
1deb6a8449 ipn: add no-disconnect in-process bus subscribers
Add NotifyInProcessNoDisconnect for in-process IPN bus subscribers that
must apply every bus update. When such a subscriber falls behind, block
Notify production instead of sending the terminal fell-behind message and
closing the watch.

This is intentionally not available over LocalAPI, where a slow or stuck
out-of-process client should still be disconnected rather than allowed to
stall tailscaled. In-process callers that use the bit must keep their
callbacks fast and must not call back into LocalBackend from the callback.

Updates #20062

Change-Id: I730ad61a07475243bb226fba2262c1a3ded211ae
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2026-06-09 12:51:38 -07:00
Brad Fitzpatrick
edcc2c94d9 ipn: enforce lossless IPN bus delta streams
New-style IPN bus subscribers consume stateful delta streams. Reject
NotifyRateLimit when it is combined with those subscription bits so
tailscaled cannot merge or delay messages that clients need to apply in
order.

Also stop silently dropping notifications when a watcher falls behind.
Remove the watcher, replace its stale queue with one terminal ErrMessage
notification, and close the watch.

Updates #20062

Change-Id: Id9d402ea76f4011cd23f122adf62f30dd4b6f90b
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2026-06-09 11:12:20 -07:00
Will Norris
3ec5be3f51 all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it
This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in
the history of Tailscale's open source releases.

A Brief History of AUTHORS files
---

The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for
Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem
was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing
Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source
projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each
contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors
then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE
file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a
tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the
license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact.

The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the
copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then
include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The
Chromium Authors".

This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a
high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the
copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the
contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way
for the proejct maintainer to know.

Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to
keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to
it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors.
They are also clear that:

> Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the
> project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership.

It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors
that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was
entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even
the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright
holders.

In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists
Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes
confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header
in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so
it's ambiguous what that means.

Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever
they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We
also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which
provides some additional certification of their right to make the
contribution.

The source file changes were purely mechanical with:

    git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g'

Updates #cleanup

Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
Alex Chan
84659b1dc6 ipn: fix the string representation of an empty ipn.Notify
Before: `ipn.Notify}`
After:  `ipn.Notify{}`

Updates #cleanup

Signed-off-by: Alex Chan <alexc@tailscale.com>
2025-09-16 18:13:49 +01:00