fix(daemon): kill launcher workers via launch-time process group - #980
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execWorker.Kill and CommandContext Cancel still called TerminateProcess(pid), which rediscovers the group with Getpgid. On Darwin that lookup returns ESRCH for an unreaped group leader and leaves descendants running. Route both sites through TerminateOwnedProcess so they use the ConfigureChildProcessGroup identity instead. TerminateCommand is the wrong helper: it Wait()s, and the pool still owns the reap. Fixes Gitlawb#861
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WalkthroughThe change adds non-reaping process-group termination for started commands. Daemon worker kill and cancellation paths now use launch-time process-group identity. POSIX tests cover unreaped leaders and descendant termination. ChangesProcess-group termination
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR improves launcher cleanup by terminating the launch-time process group without taking ownership of reaping, reducing the chance that descendant workers remain running. It is generally mergeable with owner awareness: the regression tests should more reliably exercise the unreaped-leader case, rejected inputs should be covered, and fallback behavior should be documented. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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internal/background/terminate.go (1)
25-31: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winState the fallback behavior in the API comment.
terminateOwnedProcessusesterminateProcesswhen the command lacks theConfigureChildProcessGroupSetpgidconfiguration. State this precondition, or document the process-tree fallback. The current comment promises launch-time process-group identity for calls that do not meet that condition.As per coding guidelines, “PR description, help text, and comments must match what shipped.”
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In `@internal/background/terminate_posix_test.go`:
- Around line 56-71: Update internal/background/terminate_posix_test.go lines
56-71 to wait until cmd.Process.Pid is observed in zombie state without calling
Wait before invoking TerminateOwnedProcess. Apply the same synchronization in
internal/daemon/launcher_posix_test.go lines 41-49 for w.cmd.Process.Pid before
calling w.Kill; preserve cleanup and ensure both tests exercise the
unreaped-leader failure path.
In `@internal/background/terminate.go`:
- Around line 33-34: Add failure-path tests for TerminateOwnedProcess covering
both a nil command and an unstarted exec.Cmd; assert each returns an error
without panicking.
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In `@internal/background/terminate.go`:
- Around line 25-31: Update the API comment for TerminateOwnedProcess to state
that launch-time process-group termination applies only when
ConfigureChildProcessGroup enables Setpgid, and document the terminateProcess
fallback when that configuration is absent.
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Wait until cmd.Process.Pid is a zombie via /proc/<pid>/stat (or ps) without Wait/reaping so the Darwin Getpgid ESRCH path is actually exercised. Cover TerminateOwnedProcess(nil) and an unstarted *exec.Cmd failure paths.
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Approving. Your CI had never run: held at action_required behind the fork gate with only CodeRabbit green. I released it and the full suite is green.
One thing worth fixing when convenient, and it is about coverage rather than correctness.
TestExecLauncherCancelTerminatesProcessGroup is the only test for the cmd.Cancel half of this change, and it passes identically with the fix reverted. Its worker is sh -c 'sleep 300 & echo $!; wait', so the group leader stays alive until cancel(), and a live leader is exactly the case the old code already handled. The change is about the leader having already exited, which the test never produces.
A worker that exits immediately while leaving a background child alive would exercise it. That is the same shape as the bug this PR fixes, so it is worth pinning; otherwise a later refactor can drop the Cancel wiring with CI green.
The rest held up under probing. Capturing the group at launch rather than deriving it at kill time is the right call, and I could not construct a case where the captured gid is zero and the kill reaches the parent's own group.
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I found issues that need to be addressed before this is ready.
Merge readiness
- [P1] Rebase onto current
mainbefore merge
AGENTS.md:72
The PR merge base is27b319ca, while currentmainis1b5db176; the PR is currentlyMERGEABLEbut GitHub reports it as blocked. Repository guidance makes a fresh base a hard blocker, so rebase and resolve against the live target before merge.
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[P3] Exercise cancellation after the group leader has exited
internal/daemon/launcher_posix_test.go:66
The PR changes two independent consumers of the process-group helper:execWorker.Killand theexec.CommandContextcancellation callback. TheKilltest correctly creates a leader that has exited but remains unreaped while its background child is still alive. This cancellation test instead runssleep 300 & echo $!; wait, which keeps the shell leader alive untilcancel().That distinction is the root cause of the coverage gap. With a live leader, the pre-PR
TerminateProcess(pid)implementation can callGetpgid, rediscover that leader's group, and kill the same child. Thus the test stays green ifcmd.Cancelis reverted to the old implementation; it never reaches the DarwinGetpgid→ESRCHpath that this change is intended to avoid.Please make the cancellation test start a configured worker whose leader exits immediately after forking a child that keeps the stdout pipe open, wait until the leader is an unreaped zombie, then cancel the context. Assert that the descendant stops and that
Waitstill reaps the worker. Keep the existing live-leader test only if it provides separate value; the important regression assertion is the exited-leader case. -
[P3] Document the non-group fallback for
TerminateOwnedProcess
internal/background/terminate.go:25
The new exported helper's comment promises launch-time process-group termination, but that is only one branch of its implementation. On POSIX,terminateOwnedProcessusesTerminateProcessGrouponly whenConfigureChildProcessGroupestablishedSysProcAttr.SetpgidwithPgid == 0; every other command intentionally falls back to PID/tree termination. Windows also uses its rooted process-tree implementation rather than a persistent POSIX-style group identity.The root cause is therefore a wider API comment than the implementation contract. A future caller can reasonably read the current comment as a group-termination guarantee, pass an ordinary
exec.Cmd, and unknowingly receive the fallback semantics instead.Please document the existing precondition and fallback: direct launch-time group termination applies to commands configured by
ConfigureChildProcessGroup; otherwise the helper uses the safe platform PID/tree path. This should be a documentation-only change—do not alter the established POSIX or Windows behavior.
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Fixes #861
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issue-approved. Proceeding anyway — intern broadening per @Vasanthdev2004 / @euxaristia, not a Gitlawb maintainer exemption.What changed
Follow-up from #774:
TerminateProcessGroup/terminateOwnedProcessexist specifically to avoid DarwinGetpgidESRCH on an unreaped group leader, which madeTerminateProcessTreesilently signal only the dead leader and leave descendants running.Two launcher call sites still held the
*exec.Cmdthat went throughConfigureChildProcessGroupbut calledbackground.TerminateProcess(pid)(the fragile rediscovery path):execWorker.Killcmd.Cancel(CommandContext group terminate)Both now call
background.TerminateOwnedProcess(cmd), which uses launch-timeSetpgididentity.TerminateCommandis the wrong helper here: itWait()s, and the pool still owns the reap viaWait().internal/specialist/exec.gois left alone (bare PID, no launch-time group knowledge), as the issue asked.Tests
TerminateOwnedProcessdoes not reap; callerWaitstill worksTerminateOwnedProcesskills a forked child after the unreaped leader has exited (the Darwin Getpgid ESRCH scenario)execWorker.Killuses process-group termination, does not reap, and still allowsWaitcmd.Cancelkills the process group of a still-running worker with a forked childgo testwas not run locally (no checkout; onlygofmt -eon patched files). CI will run them.Summary by CodeRabbit
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