float("NaN") and a JSON NaN passed the old check, and every comparison with
NaN is false, so a live holder looked like a reused pid: the in-use gate let
the purge through and the session file was taken as stale. startedAt must
now be an int or float (not bool), finite and positive; anything else cannot
be told and counts as live. A dead pid is still stale whatever it says.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>