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Closes #582.

CLIENT TRACKING silently ignored every movablekeys command, leaving RESP3
client-side caches permanently stale with no signal to the client.

The defect

Movablekeys commands carry first_key: 0 in COMMAND_META, mirroring redis's
own table. That means "the keys are not at a fixed position" — not "there
are no keys"
. tracking::invalidation::command_keys read it as the latter and
returned an empty key list, which disabled both halves of the protocol:

  • a movablekeys read (SINTERCARD, ZINTERCARD, ZDIFF/ZINTER/ZUNION,
    XREAD) never registered the client, so it cached a value it would never be
    told about;
  • a movablekeys write (LMPOP, ZMPOP, BLMPOP, BZMPOP, XREADGROUP)
    never pushed an invalidate.

SORT src ... STORE dst was a third shape: first_key = 1 names the SOURCE, so
Moon invalidated a key it had not written and missed the one it had. Same
for GEORADIUS/GEORADIUSBYMEMBER ... STORE/STOREDIST.

Client-side caching is a correctness contract — the client may serve its cached
copy until told otherwise — so a missed invalidation is unbounded wrong data,
not a slow path, and it is invisible to the client.

Measured, moon vs redis 8.0.5

A tracking client (RESP3 + CLIENT TRACKING ON) reads a key; a second
connection writes it; we wait for an invalidate push.

case redis 8.0.5 moon before moon after
READ SINTERCARD 2 s1 s2, then SADD s1 y invalidate none invalidate
READ SMEMBERS s1 [control] invalidate invalidate invalidate
READ ZDIFF 2 z1 z2, then ZADD z1 2 c invalidate none invalidate
WRITE LMPOP 1 mylist LEFT invalidate none invalidate
WRITE LPOP mylist [control] invalidate invalidate invalidate
WRITE ZMPOP 1 myzset MIN invalidate none invalidate
WRITE SORT src ALPHA STORE dst (tracker on dst) invalidate none invalidate

Verified at --shards 1 and --shards 4 — the latter also exercises the
cross-shard capture path, where keys are extracted at enqueue time rather than
after the write. Stable over three consecutive runs.

The fix

Key extraction here now delegates to the walker in acl::keyspec, which already
understood every one of these layouts (numkeys vectors, the STREAMS token,
positional STORE clauses, subcommand-shaped positions).

That walker was refactored to report key positions
(command_key_positions), with each consumer applying its own policy on top —
because the consumers legitimately disagree about the same argv:

SORT ... BY <pattern> reads key names computed at runtime. ACL must refuse
it outright (a ~pattern user could otherwise reach arbitrary keys through the
pattern), while cache invalidation must still act on the keys that ARE named,
exactly as redis does.

That asymmetry is the new KeyPositions::AtPlusComputed variant. Reporting
positions also keeps both consumers copy-free: ACL borrows slices, tracking
clones the Bytes handle (a refcount bump).

ACL behaviour is unchanged by construction.
acl::keyspec::command_keys is now a thin fail-closed policy over the shared
walker that collapses both AtPlusComputed and Unknown to Indeterminate
i.e. precisely today's answer. All 81 ACL tests pass untouched, including the
~pattern enforcement suite from #566.

Verification

  • 4796 lib tests, 0 failures.
  • Tracking + ACL integration suites: client_tracking_invalidation (8),
    acl_inline_read_enforcement (6), acl_privileged_intercepts (2),
    acl_user_revocation (6), pubsub_multi_channel_acl (2) — all pass.
  • cargo fmt --check and clippy --all-targets -D warnings clean (exit codes
    captured directly, not through a pipe).
  • Non-vacuity proven: reverting only the two source files and re-running the
    new integration test fails at the movablekeys assertions after the controls
    pass — so the failures are the defect, not a dead harness.

Follow-up (not in this PR)

#537 is the same root cause at the client-facing layer: COMMAND GETKEYS also
reads first_key <= 0 as "no keys" and returns ERR The command has no key arguments for the whole movablekeys family. It needs a Bytes/Frame bridge
and redis's four distinct error strings, so it is kept separate; this PR lays
the shared walker it will consume.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected client-side cache invalidation for movable-key commands and STORE variants.
    • Improved invalidation support for counted keys, streams, subcommands, and destination keys.
    • Added safer handling for malformed or unknown command arguments.
    • Preserved existing access-control behavior, including commands with computed keys.
  • Tests

    • Expanded wire-level verification across single- and multi-shard deployments.
    • Covered movable-key reads and writes, fixed-position commands, and SORT ... STORE invalidation.

CLIENT TRACKING silently ignored every movablekeys command — one whose keys
are not at a fixed argument position — leaving RESP3 client-side caches
permanently stale with no signal to the client.

Such commands carry `first_key: 0` in COMMAND_META, which mirrors redis's own
table and means "the keys are not at a FIXED position", NOT "there are no
keys". `tracking::invalidation::command_keys` read it as the latter and
returned an empty key list, which disabled both halves of the protocol:

  * a movablekeys READ (SINTERCARD, ZINTERCARD, ZDIFF/ZINTER/ZUNION, XREAD)
    never registered the client, so it cached a value it would never be told
    about;
  * a movablekeys WRITE (LMPOP, ZMPOP, BLMPOP, BZMPOP, XREADGROUP) never
    pushed an `invalidate`.

`SORT src ... STORE dst` was a third shape: first_key=1 names the SOURCE, so
Moon invalidated a key it had not written and missed the one it had — the same
for GEORADIUS/GEORADIUSBYMEMBER ... STORE/STOREDIST.

Client-side caching is a correctness contract: the client may serve its cached
copy until told otherwise. A missed invalidation is therefore unbounded wrong
data, not a slow path, and it is invisible to the client.

Key extraction now delegates to the walker in `acl::keyspec`, which already
understood every one of these layouts. That walker was refactored to report key
POSITIONS (`command_key_positions`), with each consumer applying its own policy
on top, because the consumers legitimately disagree about the same argv:
`SORT ... BY <pattern>` reads runtime-computed key names, which ACL must refuse
outright (a `~pattern` user could otherwise reach arbitrary keys) while cache
invalidation must still act on the keys that ARE named, as redis does. That is
the new `KeyPositions::AtPlusComputed` variant.

ACL behaviour is unchanged by construction: `acl::keyspec::command_keys` is now
a thin fail-closed policy over the shared walker that collapses both
`AtPlusComputed` and `Unknown` to `Indeterminate`, i.e. exactly today's answer.
All 81 ACL tests pass untouched.

Verified against redis-server 8.0.5, which invalidates in all seven probed
cases; Moon now matches all seven at --shards 1 and --shards 4 (the latter also
exercises the cross-shard capture path, stable over three runs). Each case runs
beside a fixed-position CONTROL, and the new integration test was confirmed
non-vacuous: reverted against pre-fix sources it fails at the movablekeys
assertions AFTER the controls pass, so the failures are the defect and not a
dead harness.

Closes #582

author: Tin Dang
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The change introduces shared key-position extraction for ACL and client tracking. Tracking now handles movable-key, counted, stream, subcommand, and STORE commands. Integration tests verify invalidations across single- and multi-shard deployments.

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Movable-key client tracking

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared key-position walker
src/acl/keyspec.rs
Key extraction returns validated argument positions. ACL policy remains separate from key discovery. Movable, counted, stream, subcommand, two-key, and STORE layouts are covered.
Tracking key resolution and validation
src/tracking/invalidation.rs
Client tracking uses the shared walker and tests counted, stream, STORE, subcommand, and malformed command arguments.
Wire-level movable-key verification
tests/tracking_movablekeys.rs, CHANGELOG.md
RESP3 integration tests verify invalidations for movable-key reads, writes, fixed-position controls, and SORT ... STORE across shard configurations. The changelog records the fix.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to dbb62

XREADGROUP can currently authorize or invalidate the wrong key because its STREAMS arguments are parsed incorrectly, creating a concrete security and cache-correctness risk. Merge should wait for this parsing fix.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant TrackingClient
  participant MoonTracking
  participant ACLKeyspec
  participant ForeignWriter
  TrackingClient->>MoonTracking: Enable RESP3 client tracking
  TrackingClient->>MoonTracking: Execute movable-key command
  MoonTracking->>ACLKeyspec: Resolve command key positions
  ACLKeyspec-->>MoonTracking: Return named key positions
  ForeignWriter->>MoonTracking: Modify a tracked key
  MoonTracking-->>TrackingClient: Push invalidate message
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Possibly related PRs

  • pilotspace/moon#234: Added the broader client-tracking infrastructure and initial command_keys implementation.
  • pilotspace/moon#571: Extended ACL key extraction and shared its walkers with tracking invalidation.
  • pilotspace/moon#564: Modified ACL extraction for movable and two-key commands, including RPOPLPUSH.

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tests/tracking_movablekeys.rs (1)

146-157: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Match the pushed key exactly instead of by substring.

awaits_invalidate accepts any buffer that contains invalidate and, separately, contains key. The two substrings need not belong to the same push, and a key name that is a prefix of another key matches as well. A test can therefore report success without receiving an invalidation for the asserted key. That defeats the purpose of the control assertions.

Match the RESP3 bulk-string form of the key that follows the invalidate marker.

💚 Proposed fix for exact key matching
     fn awaits_invalidate(&mut self, key: &str, budget: Duration) -> bool {
         let deadline = Instant::now() + budget;
         let mut seen = Vec::new();
+        let needle = format!("invalidate\r\n*1\r\n${}\r\n{key}\r\n", key.len());
         while Instant::now() < deadline {
             seen.extend_from_slice(&self.drain(Duration::from_millis(250)));
             let text = String::from_utf8_lossy(&seen);
-            if text.contains("invalidate") && text.contains(key) {
+            if text.contains(&needle) {
                 return true;
             }
         }
         false
     }

If the server batches several keys into one push, keep the invalidate anchor but assert the exact $<len>\r\n<key>\r\n token rather than a bare substring.

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In `@tests/tracking_movablekeys.rs` around lines 146 - 157, Update
awaits_invalidate to match the exact RESP3 bulk-string token for key immediately
after the invalidate marker, using the key’s byte length and CRLF framing;
retain the invalidate anchor and support batched keys while preventing unrelated
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In `@src/acl/keyspec.rs`:
- Around line 405-419: Update stream_keys to parse the command-specific
XREADGROUP prefix and options before identifying the STREAMS clause, then return
only the actual stream-key positions after that clause; do not choose the last
STREAMS occurrence, since stream keys or IDs may also equal STREAMS. Preserve
Unknown for malformed input or when no valid keys are present.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@tests/tracking_movablekeys.rs`:
- Around line 146-157: Update awaits_invalidate to match the exact RESP3
bulk-string token for key immediately after the invalidate marker, using the
key’s byte length and CRLF framing; retain the invalidate anchor and support
batched keys while preventing unrelated or prefix key matches.
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Comment thread src/acl/keyspec.rs
Comment on lines +405 to 419
fn stream_keys(args: &[Frame]) -> KeyPositions {
let Some(pos) = args
.iter()
.position(|f| key_bytes(f).is_some_and(|t| t.eq_ignore_ascii_case(b"STREAMS")))
else {
return CommandKeys::Indeterminate;
return KeyPositions::Unknown;
};
let num_keys = (args.len() - pos - 1) / 2;
if num_keys == 0 {
return CommandKeys::Indeterminate;
}
let mut keys = KeyVec::new();
for frame in &args[pos + 1..pos + 1 + num_keys] {
match key_bytes(frame) {
Some(k) => keys.push(k),
None => return CommandKeys::Indeterminate,
}
return KeyPositions::Unknown;
}
CommandKeys::Keys(keys)
let mut idx = KeyIdx::new();
idx.extend(pos + 1..pos + 1 + num_keys);
KeyPositions::At(idx)
}

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Redis xreadGetKeys STREAMS token key extraction XREADGROUP getkeys

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In Redis, both the XREAD and XREADGROUP commands are defined by a variable-length syntax involving the STREAMS keyword [1][2]. Because of this, Redis provides metadata for these commands to allow client libraries and proxies to identify which arguments are keys [3][4]. Key Extraction Logic For both XREAD and XREADGROUP, the STREAMS keyword is mandatory and must appear as the final option before the stream arguments [1][3][2][4]. The argument structure following STREAMS is as follows: STREAMS key_1 key_2... key_N ID_1 ID_2... ID_N To programmatically extract the keys: 1. Locate the STREAMS keyword index. 2. The keys begin immediately after the STREAMS keyword [1][2]. 3. The total number of streams (N) is determined by the remaining arguments (there are 2*N total arguments after STREAMS: N keys followed by N IDs) [1][3][2]. 4. Therefore, the keys are located from index (STREAMS_index + 1) to (STREAMS_index + N) [5][6]. Implementation Examples Client libraries often implement this via command specifications (sometimes called GetKeys or KeyRangeGen) that define the start, step, and limit of keys [5][7]. In XREAD, the command starts with optional arguments (like COUNT or BLOCK), followed by the mandatory STREAMS keyword [1][6]. In XREADGROUP, the command requires additional mandatory arguments (GROUP, group-name, consumer-name) before the STREAMS keyword [2][8][4]. Consequently, the offset for key extraction is different for XREADGROUP compared to XREAD because of the group-related positional arguments [5][7]. For example, in many Redis client implementations (such as go-redis), the key position is explicitly calculated during the creation of the command object to ensure that clustering or proxy-based routing can correctly identify the stream keys [5]. Official Redis documentation provides metadata for these commands confirming the key-step and range logic required for tools to correctly parse them [3][4].

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def current_stream_keys(args):
    try:
        pos = next(i for i, value in enumerate(args)
                   if value.lower() == "streams")
    except StopIteration:
        return None
    n = (len(args) - pos - 1) // 2
    if n == 0:
        return None
    return list(range(pos + 1, pos + 1 + n))

def xreadgroup_handler_keys(args):
    if len(args) < 4 or args[0].lower() != "group":
        return None
    idx = 3  # GROUP, group, consumer
    while idx < len(args):
        value = args[idx].lower()
        if value == "count":
            idx += 2
        elif value == "block":
            idx += 2
        elif value == "noack":
            idx += 1
        elif value == "streams":
            idx += 1
            break
        else:
            return None
    remaining = len(args) - idx
    if remaining == 0 or remaining % 2:
        return None
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    return list(range(idx, idx + n))

cases = [
    ["GROUP", "g", "STREAMS", "STREAMS", "s", ">"],
    ["GROUP", "g", "c", "STREAMS", "STREAMS", ">"],
    ["GROUP", "g", "c", "COUNT", "1", "STREAMS", "s", ">"],
    ["GROUP", "g", "c", "STREAMS", "s", "STREAMS"],
]
for args in cases:
    actual = xreadgroup_handler_keys(args)
    guessed = current_stream_keys(args)
    print({"args": args, "handler_key_indexes": actual,
           "current_extractor_indexes": guessed,
           "handler_keys": [args[i] for i in actual] if actual else None,
           "extracted_keys": [args[i] for i in guessed] if guessed else None})
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Fix stream_keys to parse the command-specific STREAMS position. For XREADGROUP GROUP g STREAMS STREAMS s >, the helper reports "STREAMS" instead of the real key "s". This allows a ~STREAMS user to access s, and the write-side tracking hook invalidates the wrong key. Parse the XREADGROUP prefix and options; do not select the last occurrence, because a stream key or ID can also equal STREAMS.

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In `@src/acl/keyspec.rs` around lines 405 - 419, Update stream_keys to parse the
command-specific XREADGROUP prefix and options before identifying the STREAMS
clause, then return only the actual stream-key positions after that clause; do
not choose the last STREAMS occurrence, since stream keys or IDs may also equal
STREAMS. Preserve Unknown for malformed input or when no valid keys are present.

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Review addendum — a known imprecision this PR introduces, filed as #584.

Moon's tracking hook invalidates every key a write command names; redis invalidates only the keys it modifies. Measured on this branch vs redis 8.0.5:

tracker is on redis 8.0.5 this branch
ZUNIONSTORE d 2 a b, SOURCE a no push invalidate
SORT src ALPHA STORE dst, SOURCE src no push invalidate
ZUNIONSTORE d 2 a b, DEST d [control] invalidate invalidate

SORT's source was already over-invalidated before this PR (first_key = 1 named it); the ZUNIONSTORE sources are new, since the old extractor returned only [d].

This is the safe direction of imprecision: an extra invalidation makes the client drop a still-valid entry and re-fetch, so it reads correct data at the cost of a round trip. The dangerous direction — a missing invalidation, i.e. unbounded stale data with no signal — is what this PR fixes.

It is deliberately not fixed here because the precise answer needs per-key flags (RO/RW/OW/access/update) that COMMAND_META does not carry — the same missing data that leaves COMMAND GETKEYSANDFLAGS unimplemented. And LMPOP shows the static limit: which of its N keys is written depends on which is non-empty at runtime. Tracked with a suggested order in #584.

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#637)

Every blocking pop modified the keyspace without invalidating any
client-side cache. A RESP3 client with CLIENT TRACKING ON that cached a
list and had BLPOP drain it kept serving the stale value forever.

Root cause: `try_handle_blocking` serves the immediate case and pushes its
own reply, and it is the ONE write path with no `invalidate_after_write`
call. That call is hand-copied at twelve other sites; the blocking path was
a thirteenth nobody added it to -- the same shape as #623 (eight hand-copied
wake hooks), one layer over.

Measured against redis-server 8.6.1 at --shards 4 with hash-tagged keys.
Three non-blocking controls prove the instrument:

  LPOP/ZPOPMIN/LMPOP [controls]  PUSH -> PUSH   (unchanged)
  BLPOP BRPOP BLMPOP             NONE -> PUSH
  BZPOPMIN BZMPOP                NONE -> PUSH
  BLMOVE src, BLMOVE dst         NONE -> PUSH
  BRPOPLPUSH src                 NONE -> PUSH

The served keys come from the REPLY, not the arguments. A blocking
command's arguments name CANDIDATES and only one is served, and redis
invalidates the served key alone -- `BLPOP k1 k2` with k1 empty leaves a
client's cache of k1 intact -- and invalidates nothing at all on timeout.
Both measured, both pinned as consistency rows. Reusing `written_keys`
would have re-introduced #584 (invalidating keys a command only READ) on a
new path, so `blocking_served_keys` reads the reply shape instead:
[key, ...] for the pops, and both arguments for BLMOVE/BRPOPLPUSH, whose
reply is the moved element rather than a key name.

Also corrects PR #583, which listed BLMPOP and BZMPOP as covered. The key
extractor WAS taught about them and has passing unit tests; the execution
path never called it. That is why a unit test could not see the gap and an
end-to-end probe could.

#637: the null-type probes generated `nulltype:N` and `nulltype:N-d`, two
keys that hash to different shards, so at --shards >= 2 `BLMOVE %K %K-d`
and `BRPOPLPUSH %K %K-d` compared moon's correct cross-shard refusal
(#570/#591) against redis's `*-1`. A null-TYPE assertion that was really
measuring routing, failing for a reason it was never written to test.
`nulltype:{N}` co-locates both keys at any shard count.

Validation -- same script, same ports, only the binary changes:

  --shards 4, pre-fix   385 passed / 14 failed
  --shards 4, post-fix  393 passed /  6 failed
  --shards 1, post-fix  396 passed /  1 failed

The seven that flip are exactly the seven blocking rows plus the BLMOVE
null-type row; nothing else moves. The six residual failures reproduce
identically on both binaries and are pre-existing: five cross-shard *STORE
DEST invalidation controls (#448 -- and they are DETERMINISTIC at
--shards 4 across repeated runs, not the 25-40% flake that issue
describes) and ROLE on a master (#536).

Two rows guard the directions a fix must NOT break -- an unserved
candidate, and a timed-out pop. Both pass on the pre-fix binary too, since
it invalidated nothing at all; they exist to fail a future fix that
invalidates unconditionally.

Fixes #644
Refs #637, #583, #584, #623

author: Tin Dang
TinDang97 added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 22, 2026
#637) (#646)

Every blocking pop modified the keyspace without invalidating any
client-side cache. A RESP3 client with CLIENT TRACKING ON that cached a
list and had BLPOP drain it kept serving the stale value forever.

Root cause: `try_handle_blocking` serves the immediate case and pushes its
own reply, and it is the ONE write path with no `invalidate_after_write`
call. That call is hand-copied at twelve other sites; the blocking path was
a thirteenth nobody added it to -- the same shape as #623 (eight hand-copied
wake hooks), one layer over.

Measured against redis-server 8.6.1 at --shards 4 with hash-tagged keys.
Three non-blocking controls prove the instrument:

  LPOP/ZPOPMIN/LMPOP [controls]  PUSH -> PUSH   (unchanged)
  BLPOP BRPOP BLMPOP             NONE -> PUSH
  BZPOPMIN BZMPOP                NONE -> PUSH
  BLMOVE src, BLMOVE dst         NONE -> PUSH
  BRPOPLPUSH src                 NONE -> PUSH

The served keys come from the REPLY, not the arguments. A blocking
command's arguments name CANDIDATES and only one is served, and redis
invalidates the served key alone -- `BLPOP k1 k2` with k1 empty leaves a
client's cache of k1 intact -- and invalidates nothing at all on timeout.
Both measured, both pinned as consistency rows. Reusing `written_keys`
would have re-introduced #584 (invalidating keys a command only READ) on a
new path, so `blocking_served_keys` reads the reply shape instead:
[key, ...] for the pops, and both arguments for BLMOVE/BRPOPLPUSH, whose
reply is the moved element rather than a key name.

Also corrects PR #583, which listed BLMPOP and BZMPOP as covered. The key
extractor WAS taught about them and has passing unit tests; the execution
path never called it. That is why a unit test could not see the gap and an
end-to-end probe could.

#637: the null-type probes generated `nulltype:N` and `nulltype:N-d`, two
keys that hash to different shards, so at --shards >= 2 `BLMOVE %K %K-d`
and `BRPOPLPUSH %K %K-d` compared moon's correct cross-shard refusal
(#570/#591) against redis's `*-1`. A null-TYPE assertion that was really
measuring routing, failing for a reason it was never written to test.
`nulltype:{N}` co-locates both keys at any shard count.

Validation -- same script, same ports, only the binary changes:

  --shards 4, pre-fix   385 passed / 14 failed
  --shards 4, post-fix  393 passed /  6 failed
  --shards 1, post-fix  396 passed /  1 failed

The seven that flip are exactly the seven blocking rows plus the BLMOVE
null-type row; nothing else moves. The six residual failures reproduce
identically on both binaries and are pre-existing: five cross-shard *STORE
DEST invalidation controls (#448 -- and they are DETERMINISTIC at
--shards 4 across repeated runs, not the 25-40% flake that issue
describes) and ROLE on a master (#536).

Two rows guard the directions a fix must NOT break -- an unserved
candidate, and a timed-out pop. Both pass on the pre-fix binary too, since
it invalidated nothing at all; they exist to fail a future fix that
invalidates unconditionally.

Fixes #644
Refs #637, #583, #584, #623

author: Tin Dang
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CLIENT TRACKING never invalidates for movablekeys commands (LMPOP, ZMPOP, SINTERCARD, ZDIFF, SORT ... STORE): client-side caches go permanently stale

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