export interface Pm2DescriptorProjectionEntry {
    pid: number;
}
export interface Pm2DescriptorGuardRuntime {
    now(): number;
    exists(path: string): boolean;
    readdir(path: string): string[];
    read(path: string): string;
    mtime(path: string): number;
    isAlive(pid: number): boolean;
    readStartIdentity(pid: number): string | undefined;
}
/** Reconcile PM2 registry authority with daemon-owned descriptors before a
 * core mutation. Fresh semantic corruption is fail-closed. A stale descriptor
 * is not automatically harmless: an event-loop-frozen/orphan daemon can remain
 * live after PM2 loses its registry. Ignore a semantically parseable stale
 * record only after proving its PID dead or owned by a different process birth. */
export declare function assertNoUnregisteredLiveDaemonDescriptorsIn(operation: string, projections: Pm2DescriptorProjectionEntry[], registryDir: string, runtime?: Pm2DescriptorGuardRuntime): void;
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