feat(report): recognise .NET executables that leave no runtime file beside them - #49
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…eside them The .NET timing caution (runtime.dotnet_stopwatch_qpc) fired only when coreclr.dll or a .deps.json sat beside the target, or when the executable exported the runtime's own symbols. A framework-dependent single file, a .NET Framework executable and an application started as `dotnet app.dll` got no caution at all. pe.rs now answers is_dotnet_executable from one open of the file, by any of three marks: the runtime's exports (NativeAOT, self-contained single file) as before, the 32-byte bundle signature every apphost carries in .data (bundle_marker.c in dotnet/runtime, which dotnet publish never rewrites), and a CLR header behind data directory 14, which only a .NET Framework executable carries. The report also recognises dotnet.exe by name. The caution holds for all of them: the .NET Framework Stopwatch calls QueryPerformanceCounter as well, and the harness measures it real on x86. A NativeAOT build with debugger support turned off carries none of the marks and is still not recognised. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 12-16: Revise the changelog coverage claim to distinguish newly
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- Line 281: Update has_clr_header to require the CLR directory size to be at
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| .NET Framework application, whose runtime lives in the Windows directory, and one started as | ||
| `dotnet app.dll` have no .NET runtime files beside the executable. Those files were how the | ||
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Correct the prior-coverage claim.
The previous export-based detector already warned for NativeAOT and self-contained single-file applications with matching runtime exports. “None of these got the caution” incorrectly presents that coverage as new. Describe framework-dependent single-file apps, .NET Framework executables, and dotnet app.dll as the newly recognized cases.
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In `@CHANGELOG.md` around lines 12 - 16, Revise the changelog coverage claim to
distinguish newly recognized cases from existing export-based detection:
identify framework-dependent single-file apps, .NET Framework executables, and
`dotnet app.dll` as newly covered, and do not imply NativeAOT or self-contained
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…file has_clr_header took any non-zero size in data directory 14 and read 72 bytes from an address only its first byte of which was checked against the section. A directory declaring one byte, or a header running past the end of its section into bytes the section does not own, could still be read as a .NET Framework executable. The directory now has to declare at least a whole header, and offset_of takes a length and answers only when every byte of the range lies inside one section on disk. The export reader keeps its old bound (the first byte), because its block is limited by its own size field and the window. Both cases are new assertions, measured red before the fix, one each. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What was missing
The caution that a .NET
Stopwatchdoes not follow the session speed (runtime.dotnet_stopwatch_qpc) was raised only whencoreclr.dllor a.deps.jsonsat beside the target, or when the executable exported the runtime's own symbols (NativeAOT, self-contained single file, added in #44). Three shapes of .NET application leave neither, and got no caution at all:dotnet app.dlldotnethost, and the application is only an argumentThe change
pe::is_dotnet_executablereplacesembeds_dotnet_runtime, opens the file once, and answers yes on any of three marks:.databehind an eight-byte bundle offset. The source issrc/native/corehost/apphost/bundle_marker.cin dotnet/runtime, anddotnet publishrewrites only the offset, so the signature is in every apphost, single file or not. It is searched in a bounded window of.dataonly, and only with room for the offset in front of it,IMAGE_COR20_HEADERthe file really holds, with its size field at least 72. Only a .NET Framework executable carries one, because .NET (Core) builds its managed code into a.dllbehind a native apphost.The report also recognises
dotnet.exeby name, next tojava.exeandpython.exe.The caution's text holds for all three: the .NET Framework
StopwatchcallsQueryPerformanceCountertoo (reference source), and the harness already measures it real on x86. No new key, so the protocol, translations and the CLI contract are unchanged.Measured
Dry run on the same binaries before and after:
dotnet app.dllThe signature was located on real builds:
.data+0x140on three plain apphosts and a framework-dependent single file,.data+0x3D78on a self-contained single file, and absent from every non-.NET binary checked. A real session ofdotnet app.dllat x60 reportsworkswith the caution,DateTime.UtcNowrunning 87 s of session time whileStopwatchmeasured 1.4 s, which is what the caution says.Guards, each with its revert probe measured
Synthetic PE files built in the test, in both PE32 and PE32+, as for the Go fingerprint:
.datawith its offset room, and not in.rdata, not with one byte changed, not at the very start of the section,Removing the apphost branch, the CLR branch or the
dotnet.exename each turned exactly the expected tests red, and so did weakening the offset room or the size-field check.Checks
Unit tests 250 (+2),
test-rust530, hygiene, clippy andclippy-pingreen, harness S12 10/10 on x64 and x86.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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dotnethost.