Allow Closed Programs to be Recreated

[blockiosaurus]

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simd: "0208"
title: Allow Closed Programs to be Recreated
authors:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
  category: Standard
  type: Core
  status: Review
  created: 2024-12-06
  feature:

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Summary

This proposal is the migration of the discussion found at
solana-labs/solana#27460, regarding closed program
accounts not being recoverable. This SIMD proposes adding in the ability to
reopen a closed program through the same mechanism as standard program deploys.

Motivation

As it is the default behavior of all Solana accounts to be reopenable, the lack
of this ability for program accounts seems like an oversight. More importantly,
because it does not follow the default behavior, it would not be obvious to the
average program deployer that closing a program is an irreversible operation
that could permanently brick any accounts owned by the closed program.

Alternatives Considered

New Terminology

Detailed Design

Impact

• Previously closed programs could be reopened and accounts recovered.

Security Considerations

• Intentionally closed programs expecting the behavior that programs are
  incapable of being reopened.

[Xmohamed1X]

That will be really really really helpful if we can do that
Or at least doing enabling to close the owned by that program even when it is closed
but even if this option is enabled again we still can't do anything about nfts delegated and locked or nft and spl tokens owned by the program so I think we really should have the option to reopen closed program
or you can give a max closing time like if you close it after 3 time you can't reopen it
or you can give the dev the option to permanently close it