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fix(process-sessions): crash on stdin EPIPE, dropped login-shell args, Windows pty signal - #401
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- attach an error listener to child stdin so a write racing child exit cannot crash the server with an unhandled EPIPE event - spawn the resolved shell with its full argument list (login-shell flag included) instead of Node's `shell` option, which dropped the args; Windows keeps cmd.exe verbatim-argument semantics - treat a missing pty exit signal as no signal so Windows clean exits are not recorded as the string "undefined"
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- Line 354: Update the child.stdin error listener in ProcessSessionManager so
write failures are captured and exposed through the session result while the
session remains running, rather than discarded. Retain the listener to prevent
unhandled errors and integrate the failure with the existing session
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| // A stdin write racing child exit surfaces as an EPIPE 'error' event with no | ||
| // listener, which would crash the process; the 'close' handler already | ||
| // reports the session as ended, so the error can be ignored. | ||
| child.stdin.on("error", () => undefined); |
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Report stdin write failures while the session remains running.
If a child closes stdin but keeps running, child.stdin.write() can fail after ProcessSessionManager.write accepts the input. This listener discards the error, so the tool can report a running session without showing that the input was lost. Keep the listener to prevent an unhandled error, but expose the write failure in the session result. (github.com)
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Review comment at @src/process-sessions.ts at line 354:
Update the child.stdin error listener in ProcessSessionManager so write failures
are captured and exposed through the session result while the session remains
running, rather than discarded. Retain the listener to prevent unhandled errors
and integrate the failure with the existing session result/error reporting path.
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SummaryThis PR makes three focused changes to The added tests cover stdin writes and login-shell startup, but the signal assertions leave a non-blocking regression-coverage gap. The existing process-session tests passed with the old signal expression restored, while a focused absent-signal callback check distinguished the old and corrected behavior. Acknowledged intent: The remaining concern is test coverage rather than a demonstrated failure in the corrected implementation. It does not block merging.
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This Windows assertion never reaches the changed onExit handler: start() uses startPipe on Windows, even with tty: true. The POSIX assertion also passes with the old handler because a clean exit reports numeric zero. The existing process-session tests passed with the old signal expression restored, while a focused callback check distinguished the implementations for signal: undefined.
This is a non-blocking regression-coverage gap: both assertions can pass if the signal fix is removed. Add a focused test that supplies an absent signal to the PTY exit callback and fails with the old implementation.
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- Executed probe checked native Linux exit signals, simulated platform dispatch, and mocked PTY callbacks, distinguishing the signal handlers.
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- Captured numbered source and test lines plus runtime details, establishing the branch and assertion evidence.
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- Temporary source copy restored the old expression and was executed, providing the before implementation.
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- Executed test copy targeted the temporary old-handler source, preserving the existing assertions.
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- Captured the existing tests passing against the old expression with exit code 0, demonstrating the coverage gap.
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- Captured an injected undefined signal becoming the string "undefined", demonstrating the old behavior.
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- Temporary source copy retained the current expression and was executed, providing the after implementation.
Existing tests targeting current signal handler
- Executed test copy targeted the temporary current-handler source, preserving the same assertions.
Existing tests with current signal handler
- Captured the same existing tests passing against the current expression with exit code 0, matching the before test outcome.
Focused probe with current signal handler
- Captured an injected undefined signal remaining actual undefined, demonstrating the corrected behavior.
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Three small, independently verified reliability fixes, all inside
ProcessSessionManager(src/process-sessions.ts) plus regression tests insrc/process-sessions.test.ts. Happy to split into separate PRs if preferred.1. Unhandled EPIPE on
write_stdincan crash the serverstartPipenever attached an'error'listener tochild.stdin. Awrite_stdinwrite that races the child's exit (the session staysrunninguntil thecloseevent fires) emitsEPIPEwith no listener → uncaught exception → the whole MCP server dies. Reproduced against currentmain: startsh -c 'exit 0', then write → the process exits on an uncaught EPIPE (Linux; the fix is platform-independent).Fix: swallow stdin stream errors — the
closehandler already reports the session as ended. Same guard patternlocal-agent-codex.tsalready uses for its child.2. Non-TTY
exec_commanddropped the resolved shell argumentsstartPipespawned with{ shell: shell.executable }, so Node always invoked<shell> -c <command>and discarded the argument listresolveShellCommandbuilds — including the-lclogin-shell flag (whichprocess-platform.test.tsasserts is the intent). The PTY path (startPty) already spawnsshell.executablewithshell.args. Consequence: the same command could see a different PATH withtty: falsevstty: true(e.g.brewnot found because~/.zprofilenever ran).Fix: spawn
(shell.executable, args)directly, like the PTY path. On Windows this replicates exactly what Node'sshelloption does forcmd.exe(/d /s /c, verbatim arguments, command wrapped in quotes), so the raw command line is byte-identical to before.3. Windows PTY clean exits were recorded as signal
"undefined"node-pty's
onExittypings declaresignal?: number, and the Windows implementation emitsexitwithout a signal. The old handler only guardedsignal === 0, soString(undefined)stored the literal"undefined"for every clean PTY exit on Windows, and downstream (tool-surfaces/codex.ts) treats any truthy signal as failure.Fix:
typeof signal === "number" && signal !== 0 ? String(signal) : undefined.Verification
pnpm typecheckclean; fullpnpm testgreen (148/148 before and after).shopt -q login_shell(SHELL pinned to/bin/bash); PTY tests assertsignal === undefinedfor clean exits (the win32 branch is the guard for fix 3).Summary by CodeRabbit