shouldLatchBackendStartFailure (electron/backend-start-failure.ts)

Pure predicates deciding whether to latch backend start failures for local or remote boot scenarios.

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/**
 * backend-start-failure.ts
 *
 * Decides whether a failed primary-backend boot should *latch* into
 * `backendStartFailure`. A latched failure makes every subsequent
 * startHermes() re-throw the cached error without re-attempting the connect —
 * the right behavior for a LOCAL backend so the renderer's retry loop can't
 * restart a broken install over and over.
 *
 * It is the WRONG behavior for a REMOTE backend. A remote connect can fail for
 * transient reasons — a lapsed OAuth access-token cookie (the gateway rotates a
 * fresh one from the live refresh-token cookie on the next request), a
 * ws-ticket mint that time

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