fix(child_process): finish output readers after EOF and spawn failure

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Problem and fix

Child-output collectors can hang when a reader first pulls after real pipe EOF,
or after a failed spawn whose empty output pipes have no live reactor entry.

• Retain real EOF state and public readable/ended flags before callbacks;
  manually emitting end remains distinct from actual pipe EOF.
• Finish failed-spawn stdout/stderr and extra readable pipes so pending and
  late readers terminate. Deliver the error callback before close, including
  when the event loop is delayed. Fork's separate behavior is unchanged.
• Root and reload event receivers and arguments across listener callbacks,
  with a deterministic relocation regression.

Current head: 83d94c03f. This branch and its fixtures are independent of any
application bundle, extraction, credentials, and the separate own-bind fix.

Validation

• The complete production change, including final listener rooting, passes
  both standalone fixtures at O0/Os/Oz with default and compact GC: 12 native
  passes, macOS arm64, Wasm host enabled. The compiler and all nine matching
  provider archives are frozen at diagnostic integration f3e8d5d1a, based on
  main 603b074ac with this PR and fix(runtime): honor AsyncResource.bind and other own function overrides #10046. This states the actual tested tree,
  not a claim that a new standalone compiler was built at the setup-only head.
• The updated prepared-runtime runner additionally passes all six compact
  native cases on that frozen pair. All four shared setup protocol tests pass.
• During production-fix development, 12 child-process and 90 stream tests
  passed with normal debug assertions and a single thread, including the
  listener-relocation regression. The trusted-pointer follow-up's relocation
  test and address-classification audit also pass.
• Pinned Node 26.5.1 passes both fixtures. Before-fix checks fail the real-EOF
  assertion and time out collecting output from a failed spawn.
• Final setup-head script lint: 73 pass, one benchmark freshness failure
  reproduced on pristine base main, two CI-only skips. Compile-tier lint was
  explicitly skipped locally. Earlier base-main CI also reproduces the
  custom-thread-stack-size runtime assertion; current CI is not claimed green.

CI setup correction

The first standalone CI compile failure was diagnosed, not treated as baseline:
the published compiler log
shows the missing net provider being built in a separate Cargo graph with a
different Tokio identity. The compiler correctly refused the incoherent link.
The latest follow-up includes this suite in the existing coherent provider
prebuild outside fixture timeouts, validates the prepared runtime, installs
the pinned Node oracle, and publishes compiler stdout/stderr on failure.
No source-stamp, Tokio, or behavior assertion is relaxed. The revised standalone
regression now passes on Linux CI at the actual 83d94c03f head (385.04s):
successful scoped E2E job.
This resolves the diagnosed provider-graph failure; it does not claim all CI is green.

Scope

The separate own-bind issue #10045 and generator-capture issue #10048 are not
dependencies. The combined application diagnostic gets past the output hang
but is not yet a working CLI or at its size target. No full application build
is required to run these bounded standalone regressions. The merge train can
perform the patch-version bump.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Child-process output streams now reliably signal end-of-file, including when readers attach late or output has been buffered.
  • Async iteration correctly reports completed streams after EOF.
  • Failed process launches now deliver errors before closing output streams and allow collectors to finish cleanly.
  • Stream state consistently reflects completion after output ends or a launch failure.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for delayed readers, pending pulls, buffered output, failed launches, and Node.js behavior parity.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The runtime now retains child-process EOF state before end callbacks. Async iterators observe completion after EOF, including late and pending pulls. Failed spawns finish output streams after error delivery. Event dispatch roots receivers and arguments across listener callbacks.

Changes

Child output lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
EOF state and dispatch crates/perry-runtime/src/child_process/builder.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/child_process/emitter.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/child_process/mod.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/child_process/reactor.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/node_stream/async_iterator.rs	Readable streams initialize readableEnded. Child-pipe EOF updates terminal state before emitting "end", and iterators observe the retained state.
Rooted child-event dispatch crates/perry-runtime/src/child_process/emitter.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/child_process/emitter/relocation_tests.rs	Event emission roots receivers and arguments across listener callbacks and stream forwarding. Relocation tests verify rewritten receivers and arguments.
Failed-spawn output completion crates/perry-runtime/src/child_process/failed_spawn.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/child_process/mod.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/child_process/reactor.rs	Failed spawns deliver the error before deferred close processing. Output streams receive end and close events, retain terminal flags, and ignore absent or already-closed streams.
EOF and failed-spawn regression coverage crates/perry-runtime/src/node_stream/async_iterator/foreign_eof_tests.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/child_process/failed_spawn.rs, tests/modules/child_output_late_iterator/*, scripts/test-child-output-late-iterator.mjs, crates/perry/tests/child_output_late_iterator.rs, .github/workflows/test.yml, changelog.d/10042-child-output-late-iterator.md	Tests cover late iterators, pending pulls, buffered chunks, normal child output, failed executable spawns, optimization levels O0/Os/Oz, and Node parity.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ChildProcess
  participant Reactor
  participant ReadableStream
  participant AsyncIterator
  ChildProcess->>Reactor: report output EOF or spawn error
  Reactor->>ReadableStream: finalize readable state
  ReadableStream->>ReadableStream: emit "end" and "close"
  AsyncIterator->>ReadableStream: pull after EOF
  ReadableStream-->>AsyncIterator: return done: true

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Temporarily returned to draft after reviewing CI at 6736e3cd5.

The scoped native integration job fails during compile-main-O0 with exit 1. The runner retains compiler stderr only in its temporary directory, which this job does not upload, so the published log does not establish the compiler failure's cause. This is not classified as a baseline failure or a passing native test. I am correcting the missing diagnostics and investigating the CI compilation setup before restoring readiness.

The same head passes check, warnings, and the build jobs. The lint failure is now only benchmark evidence freshness (the relocation fixture's raw-header audit failure was corrected). Runtime units report 3,511 passed, one custom-thread-stack-bound test failed, four ignored; that specific stack test and the benchmark failure reproduce on the recorded matching main baseline.

Local native evidence remains the 12 passing runs at 7dc2a2700, before the final rooting follow-up, plus the final relocation and focused runtime unit tests. It is not represented as final-head Linux native validation.

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The final-head CI compile failure is now diagnosed, not treated as baseline.
The logging follow-up's Linux job
shows net was missing, then built in a separate Cargo invocation: stdlib
contained tokio-923bef605005e8fc, whereas the net wrapper contained
tokio-775dfacfb3f92706. Perry correctly refused that incoherent link.

83d94c03f adds this suite to the existing coherent provider prebuild, outside
the individual fixture timeout, and verifies the prepared archives through the
shared runtime helper. Scoped native tests now use the pinned Node oracle too.
This is test/CI setup; it does not relax source-stamp, Tokio, or output checks.

The complete production fixes (including final listener rooting) pass both
standalone fixtures at O0/Os/Oz with default and compact GC: 12 native passes
on macOS arm64 in the frozen f3e8d5d1a integration with #10046. The updated
prepared-runtime runner additionally passes all six compact native runs against
that frozen toolchain. All four shared setup protocol tests pass. These are
explicit integration/compiler identities, not a claim that a new standalone
PR-head compiler was built locally or that Linux CI is already green.

The prior 102 focused runtime tests and relocation test remain valid core-fix
evidence. Fresh CI will validate the corrected standalone PR setup. The separate
application capture bug is tracked in #10048 and is not a dependency of this fix.

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Landed with preserved authorship via merge train #10047 (main f6c6879; exact validated tree 48d71715f50fce6d4ec1c64b6ba5388778889aaf).