import type { FileHandle } from 'node:fs/promises';
export declare const PAGE_BYTES: number;
export declare const RECORD_BYTES: number;
export declare class EvidencePageLimit extends Error {
}
export interface EvidenceBudget {
    bytes: number;
    limit?: number;
    signal?: AbortSignal;
}
export declare function stamp(stat: {
    dev: number;
    ino: number;
    size: number;
    mtimeMs: number;
    ctimeMs: number;
}): string;
export declare function noLinks(path: string): Promise<void>;
export declare function openEvidence(path: string): Promise<FileHandle>;
export declare function readBytes(handle: FileHandle, offset: number, length: number, budget: EvidenceBudget): Promise<Buffer>;
export declare function readSmall(path: string, budget: EvidenceBudget, limit?: number): Promise<Buffer>;
export declare function decode(bytes: Uint8Array): string;
export declare function utf8Page(bytes: Buffer, limit: number): Buffer;
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