diff --git a/src/vfsFifoTest.c b/src/vfsFifoTest.c
index e4329c6..e0fa612 100644
--- a/src/vfsFifoTest.c
+++ b/src/vfsFifoTest.c
@@ -319,3 +319,87 @@ KTEST(sfsBackedFifoReopenAfterCompletedRoundTripGetsFreshWorkingSession)
     int rfd2 = vfsOpen("/mnt/fifoRoundTrip", oReadOnly);
     KT_GE(t, rfd2, 0);
 
+    /* A genuinely fresh pipe reports "try again" here, exactly like a
+       first-ever open -- a stale, no-longer-attached handle would instead
+       report -1 forever for an entirely different reason (pipeAt finding
+       nothing "used" at that slot), which the write assertion below is
+       what actually tells apart from this one. */
+    char probe[4];
+    KT_EQ(t, vfsRead(rfd2, probe, sizeof(probe)), -1);
+
+    int wfd2 = vfsOpen("/mnt/fifoRoundTrip", oWriteOnly);
+    KT_GE(t, wfd2, 0);
+    KT_EQ(t, vfsWrite(wfd2, "two", 3), 3);
+    char second[4];
+    memset(second, 0, sizeof(second));
+    KT_EQ(t, vfsRead(rfd2, second, sizeof(second)), 3);
+    KT_TRUE(t, memcmp(second, "two", 3) == 0);
+
+    vfsClose(rfd2);
+    vfsClose(wfd2);
+    KT_EQ(t, vfsUnlink("/mnt/fifoRoundTrip"), 0);
+}
+
+KTEST(sfsBackedFifoBindingSurvivesReformatOfAnUnrelatedInode)
+{
+    /* sfsTest.c's tests each start with their own sfsFormat(), reusing
+       inode numbers dozens of times a boot. A fifo binding left open
+       ACROSS such a reformat (contrived here, but exactly the shape
+       reclaimOpenFds/sched.c would leave behind for a thread that died
+       without closing its fd -- see sched.c) must never let the fresh
+       filesystem's completely unrelated reuse of the same inode number
+       inherit the old, orphaned session. */
+    KT_TRUE(t, sfsFormat());
+    KT_EQ(t, vfsMkfifo("/mnt/fifoGenA"), 0);
+    int32 firstInode = sfsLookup("/fifoGenA");
+    KT_GE(t, firstInode, 0);
+
+    /* Left deliberately open across the reformat below -- an orphaned
+       session, on purpose, is exactly what must NOT leak into the new one. */
+    int staleRfd = vfsOpen("/mnt/fifoGenA", oReadOnly);
+    KT_GE(t, staleRfd, 0);
+
+    /* A full reformat: every old inode number, including firstInode, now
+       means whatever the fresh, empty filesystem below reassigns it to. */
+    KT_TRUE(t, sfsFormat());
+    KT_EQ(t, vfsMkfifo("/mnt/fifoGenA"), 0);
+    int32 secondInode = sfsLookup("/fifoGenA");
+    KT_GE(t, secondInode, 0);
+    /* Deterministic on a freshly formatted, otherwise-empty filesystem:
+       both are the very first entry created after root, so the numbers
+       collide -- exactly the scenario that makes the generation check
+       necessary rather than merely defensive. */
+    KT_EQ(t, secondInode, firstInode);
+
+    int rfd = vfsOpen("/mnt/fifoGenA", oReadOnly);
+    int wfd = vfsOpen("/mnt/fifoGenA", oWriteOnly);
+    KT_GE(t, rfd, 0);
+    KT_GE(t, wfd, 0);
+    KT_EQ(t, vfsWrite(wfd, "new", 3), 3);
+
+    /* The discriminating check: if the binding table wrongly inherited the
+       pre-reformat session (generation check not actually doing its job),
+       staleRfd would be a SECOND reader attached to the very same
+       underlying pipe wfd just wrote into, and -- read before rfd below --
+       would steal the payload meant for the new session's own reader.
+       Correct isolation means staleRfd's pipe never had any writer at all
+       (it only ever attached as a reader), so it must still report "try
+       again", never the new session's bytes. */
+    char stalePeek[4];
+    KT_EQ(t, vfsRead(staleRfd, stalePeek, sizeof(stalePeek)), -1);
+
+    char buffer[4];
+    memset(buffer, 0, sizeof(buffer));
+    KT_EQ(t, vfsRead(rfd, buffer, sizeof(buffer)), 3);
+    KT_TRUE(t, memcmp(buffer, "new", 3) == 0);
+
+    vfsClose(rfd);
+    vfsClose(wfd);
+    /* The orphaned pre-reformat fd is cleaned up here rather than left to
+       leak a pipe.c slot for the rest of the boot -- vfsClose only ever
+       touches pipe.c state (pipeCloseRead), never re-derefs the long-gone
+       inode, so this is safe regardless of what the fresh filesystem did
+       with the number. */
+    vfsClose(staleRfd);
+    vfsUnlink("/mnt/fifoGenA");
+}